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double-cross

To promise one thing and deliver another; to deceive.

The lawyer double-crossed the inventor by manufacturing the gadget instead of fulfilling his promise to arrange a patent for his client.

Compare: SELL DOWN THE RIVER, TWO-TIME.

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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