throw under the bus
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""A person who does things for me and befriended me and helped me out when I needed help, I'm certainly not going to throw them under the bus," she said."
- ""I got thrown under the bus by BAE," she says. "They did not want to take responsibility, so they pointed at us.""
- "Captain Tagon: So, all you did was serve us fast, before [chef] Ch'votlq could deploy his whisk of ruin? Liz: Please don't make me throw my new boss under the bus."
- "[JD] Vance recently defended MTG [Marjorie Taylor Greene] for speaking at a white-nationalist conference, saying, “She said nothing wrong, and I’m absolutely not going to throw her under the bus, or anybody else who’s a friend of mine.”"
- "If you want to know the deep values that drive someone, sometimes you have to look at who they admire, who they throw under the bus and who they refuse to unreservedly condemn."
- "A recent magazine article discussed the need to throw under the bus worn-out cultural catchphrases, with the first being “throw under the bus.”"
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
throws under the bus (present, singular)
throwing under the bus (participle, present)
threw under the bus (past)
thrown under the bus (participle, past)
throw under a bus (alternative)