under the table
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (adjectival) Secret; covert; undisclosed.
- (adverbial) Secretly; covertly; undisclosedly.
- I was paid under the table, so I didn't have to pay taxes on the income but I couldn't complain when I was cheated.
- 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015)[https://web.archive.org/web/20151213095110/http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2016/01/vultures-text]
- In or into a state of stupification or boredom.
- In or into a state of drunkenness.
- Synonyms: under the mahogany
- Used other than with a figurative or idiomatic meaning: see under, table
- Spanish: bajo cuerda
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