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under one's breath

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under one's breath

  1. (of something said) Softly, so as not to be heard.
    Synonym: underneath one's breath
    • 2006, J. Gail, Karma’s a Bitch‎[1] , page 136:
      "Here she go lookin’ like a straight up dirty coochie having hoochie gettin’ all the play," Quanisha mumbled under her breath jealously.
    • 2015, Edgar Pangborn, Edgar Pangborn SF Gateway Omnibus:
      Then of a sudden she was kissing and fondling instead of fighting me off, laughing under her breath and using a few horny words I didn't know at that time
    • 2022, Jenny Pentland, This Will Be Funny Later: A Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Harper, →ISBN, page 59:
      As I prepared myself by putting my Keds back on (I still take my shoes off at any opportunity), my mom mumbled something under her breath at my dad.

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softly — see also mumble

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