under the radar

English

Etymology

An allusion to flying an airplane at an altitude too low for radar detection.

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

under the radar

(idiomatic) Without attracting notice; in an undetected or secretive manner.
- 2004 August 30, Andrea Sachs, “About-Face”, in Time:
  Institutional change has not happened. But it's done quietly under the radar at lots of places.
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 48:
  Look, we keep our hand in with Maitland as well as this Partick thing. But we do it under the radar.

Synonyms

See also Thesaurus:covert

Derived terms

Translations

in an undetected or secretive manner

Finnish: salaa (fi), piilossa (fi), katveessa (fi)
French: sous les radars (fr)
Hungarian: észrevétlenül (hu)
Indonesian: diam-diam (id)
Russian: под радаром (pod radarom)
Swedish: under radarn

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Icelandic: ^{(please verify)} óséð

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