What's the origin of the phrase "to throw someone under the bus" or "so-and-so threw me under the bus?" (in the sense of betrayal)? It seems like a very specific phrase not to come from some specific incident.
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Wikipedia provides the origin:
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Thus, as you said, it came from a specific incident. It wasn't coined that long ago either, 1988.