Idiom
Behind someone's back.
If you do something behind someone's back, you do it without telling them.
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Someone was wielding a shepherd's crook.
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Someone was wrestling with him and he was wielding a knife, like a hunting knife..
Someone was wrestling with him and he was wielding a knife and lunging at her.
If I was wielding the pole when Sister Mercedes was occupied, I could bop someone on the head across the room, a custom known as "knighting the squire".
He was wielding Solingen steel.
He was wielding a crowbar.
Political power was wielded by the German commissioner Josef Terboven.
"The judge basically told us she would have to be wielding a knife in someone's face at the moment that the petition was made.
They're wielding it like a scalpel.
Two of them are wielding batons.
Mr. Cuomo is wielding a powerful weapon in his case.
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