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The one disciple who made betrayal a proper noun.
means A person who betrays someone under the guise of friendship or trust, especially for personal gain.
from From Judas Iscariot, the disciple who, per the Gospels, identified Jesus to his arrest-party with a kiss — for thirty pieces of silver — making his name a byword for betrayal ever since. The word spread into odd corners of English too: a 'Judas kiss' for any treacherous show of affection, a 'Judas goat' for the trained animal that leads others calmly to slaughter while itself surviving, and even 'Judas hole' for the peephole in a prison door — someone always watching, unseen.
- price tag
- thirty pieces of silver, the original severance package
- the kiss
- turned affection into the ultimate warning sign
- etymology win
- his name now means traitor in a dozen languages
- peephole irony
- a judas is also a tiny door spy-hole, fittingly sneaky