under (someone's or something's) shadow
under (someone's or something's) shadow
1. Given less attention or thought of as less notable, important, or successful compared to someone else. He's been struggling to get out from under his father's shadow during his political career.
2. Living with the constant fear, anxiety, or painful memory of something. Residents have had to live under the war's shadow for nearly a decade now.
See also: shadow
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- under the shadow of (someone or something)
- in the shadow of (someone or something)
- in/under the shadow of
- in (one's) shadow
- a little frog in a big pond
- little frog in a big pond
- much less
- even/much/still less
- a small frog in a big pond
- less than (something)