under one's breath

[under one's breath] {adv. phr.}

In a whisper; with a low voice.

* /The teacher heard the boy say something under his breath and she asked him to repeat it aloud./

* /I told Lucy the news under my breath, but Joyce overheard me./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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