to pull the rug from under sb's feet

to pull the rug from under sb's feet
4. to pull the rug from under sb or to pull the rug from under sb's feet or to pull the rug out from under sb or to pull the rug out from under sb's feet 停止帮助某人；停止支持某人；拆某人的台
- Unless we could persuade the bank not to pull the rug from under us we were finished. 除非能够说服银行别拆我们的台, 否则我们就完蛋了。
- You felt life had just pulled the rug from under her feet. 你觉得生活给了她当头一棒。
- He has no desire to pull the economic rug out from under the new president. 他不想让经济打乱新总统的计划。
- He would never have survived. The rug was pulled out from under his feet. 他肯定坚持不下去的。有人拆了他的台。
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