The expression back friend is an old term that means an enemy who pretends to be a friend. It’s more insidious than the modern coinage, frenemy. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “A Back Friend is a False Enemy”
The other day I stumbled across the term back friend, which was used for hundreds of years to mean a pretended or a false friend, an enemy who pretends like he’s your friend but he’s not.
We don’t use it anymore. No, a little worse than a frenemy.
Yeah, more insidious, more treacherous.
Insidious, yeah.
A back friend.
The false front they put on.
Oh, we all know the type.
We do indeed.
I remember high school.
How could you forget, right?
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