under the counter

Example Sentences

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Sales of chest freezers and under-the-counter freezers are up, a trend which normally happens in the run-up to Christmas as people stock up, the AO.com spokesperson added.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2020

You’ll want to find space for it in an under-the-counter cabinet.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2018

But what he saw was a team wasting tens of thousands of pounds in transfer fees, being found guilty of under-the-counter payments to players and then, in 1958, a first relegation.

From The Guardian • May 10, 2013

To remain comfortable in their squeezed digs, the couple exchanged a full-size refrigerator for an under-the-counter model and allowed in the living room a “single piece of upholstered furniture”—a rocking chair.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2013

Banned some 100 years after publication by a puritanical Manchu dynasty, it has been a popular under-the-counter item to Chinese readers ever since.

From Time Magazine Archive