Under the counter
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- Illicitly, against regulations, of goods kept under the serving counter in a shop to be unobtrusively passed to a customer who knows they are available for surreptitious sale (e.g. pornographic magazines in a newsagent).
- 1969 The Seven Minutes: A Novel by Irving Wallace
- Oh, yeah, I remember, you mean about me not trying to sell from under the counter?
- 2004, James Carlos Blake, Under the Skin
- When Prohibition became the law, they produced the stuff in greater quantity and sold it under the counter to anybody who wanted it.
- 1969 The Seven Minutes: A Novel by Irving Wallace
Under-the-counter means transacted, given, or sold illicitly. In French this is called "sous le manteau".
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