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The quality of being weak or unprotected
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underbelly
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Wiktionary
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n. (context figuratively English) The side which is not normally seen
Wikipedia
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Underbelly is an Australian television true crime - drama series which first aired on the Nine Network on 13 February 2008 and last aired 1 September 2013. Each series was based on real-life events. There have been six series in total. A 2014 series titled ...
WordNet
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n. lower side; "the underbellies of clouds" the soft belly or underside of an animal's body [syn: underbody ] the quality of being weak or unprotected; "the soft underbelly of the Axis"- Winston Churchill
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, from under + belly (n.). In figurative sense of "most vulnerable part" it is recorded from Churchill's 1942 speech. Sometimes used erroneously or euphemistically in sense of "seamy or sordid part" of anything.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But they have seen the underbelly of working motherhood, and I think they have taken in all its lessons. ▪ From the catwalk they surveyed this choked cavern which lay beneath even the underbelly of the city. ▪ It exposes the ...
Usage examples of underbelly.
Elvis was a failing Elvis, the gargantuan grunting underbelly of the American dream, reduced to passing out sweaty scarves and brand-new Cadillacs.
Under the armour that had unfolded, where the soft part of the underbelly was visible, from where the long probe had emerged, Isaac saw the abdomen of the slake-moth convulse peristaltically, squirting some unseen thing the length of the bony shaft into the depths of the dreamshit.
Petrovich, perhaps you could astound General Piatakov with a few examples of the family Talpidae burrowing into the soft underbelly of the bloated running dogs of Wall Street.
Moscow knew her underbelly was soft on Islam, and worried about ties between its tariqats and the AIR next door.
The rear section, blood red and larger than the rest, was egg-shaped with an underbelly, if one could call it that, lined with veinlike courses.
With each flash of lightning I could see the underbelly of the cloud, violet and black, shot with glimmers of gold.
Harpers Bizarre would come to ground and then bounce up, getting at the underbellies of the nowterrified horses.
Skeletal arms were reaching up from the ground and slashing the underbellies of the terrified creatures.
With three rocket nozzles in its underbelly belching flame, the machine leapt into space, accelerating as fast as a heavy cruiser under full power as it climbed to meet the approaching enemy MS unit.
They were virtually standing on their tails to aerobrake, underbellies glowing cerise.
Ayradyss swung the Sword of Wind and Obsidian into Alioth's underbelly.
In response, Dax maneuvered the Jem Hadar shipin a sharp turn to come in low, under the Centaur andO'Brien quickly strafed the other ship's underbelly asit flew by, scrubbing the sub-lateral weapons outlets.
But Phoenix was a corrupting influence, where hacker anarchy was eating away like digital acid at the underbelly of corporate propriety.
A natural assimilator, prison-trained, knows the dark side of the street' - suck - 'and the dirty underbelly of the human mind.
A blast of raucous hard-wire shatter-rock blared out from beneath her—she got her underbelly cameras on just as Alex peeled out in the sled at top speed, music screaming at top volume.