词组 | under breath |
释义 | Idiom under breathunder (your) breath if you say something under your breath, you say it very quietly so that people cannot hear the exact words.'I don't believe you.' she muttered under her breath. under (one's) breathSpoken in such a soft, quiet voice that others cannot hear it distinctly. "You'll get what's coming to you one of these days," Janet muttered under her breath. *under one's breathFig. [spoken] so softly that almost no one can hear it. (*Typically: curse ~; curse some-one or something ~; mutter ~; mutter something ~; say something ~.) John was muttering something under his breath, and I don't think it was very pleasant. I'm glad he said it under his breath. If he had said it out loud, it would have caused an argument. |
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