under-the-table
Use Under-the-table in a sentence
dər adjective
transacted in secret or in an underhanded manner.
Origin:
1945–50
1945–50
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| under-the-table | |
adjective | |
| designed and carried out secretly or confidentially; "a sub-rosa report"; "has their under-the-table backing" [syn: sub-rosa] |
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Under-the-table
is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
Example sentences
What's illegal is the under-the-table way that they are bought or sold.
Surface uses under-the-table projection to produce the tabletop image.
As the article mentions however, under-the-table trades will be commonplace regardless.
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