under the counter

Adverb

 * 1) 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).
 * 2) * 1969 The Seven Minutes: A Novel - Page 157 by Irving Wallace
 * Oh, yeah, I remember, you mean about me not trying to sell from under the counter?
 * 1) * 2004, James Carlos Blake, Under the Skin, HarperCollins, ISBN 0060542438, page 55,
 * When Prohibition became the law, they produced the stuff in greater quantity and sold it under the counter to anybody who wanted it.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 非法地
 * Finnish: tiskin alta
 * French: sous le comptoir
 * German: unter dem Ladentisch
 * Hungarian: pult alatt
 * Italian:, , ,
 * Russian:

Adjective

 * 1)  In an underhand way, sneakily; unofficially, particularly with regard to payment or tax avoidance.

Translations

 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 私下的
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:, ,