unterschlüpfen

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German

Etymology

unter- +‎ schlüpfen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʊntərʃlʏpfən/
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Verb

unterschlüpfen (weak, third-person singular present schlüpft unter, past tense schlüpfte unter, past participle untergeschlüpft, auxiliary sein)

  1. to slip under, to find accommodation
    Synonym: unterkommen
    • 1927, Adolf Halfeld, Amerika und der Amerikanismus. Kritische Betrachtungen eines Deutschen und Europäers, Jena: Eugen Diederichs, page 206:
      Der Durchschnittsamerikaner, so sagt der Bericht, werde von demokratischen Schlagworten gelenkt, deren gedankenlose Hinnahme ihn veranlasse, für alle Fragen des Lebens eine gemeinschaftliche Formel zu suchen, die weit genug gehalten sei, um einen jeden unterschlüpfen zu lassen. So steht es um den Verkauf von Autos, wo diese Formel gut und nützlich ist, so aber auch um den „Verkauf der Religion“ und den „Verkauf der Bildung“. Immer muß die angebotene – wirtschaftliche oder geistige – Ware billig sein, erreichbar für den letzten in der Masse.
      The average American, the report says, is driven by democratic catchphrases, the mindless acceptance of which impels him to search for a common formula for all questions of life that is broad enough to let anyone slip under it. This is how it stands with the selling of cars, where this formula is good and useful, but also with the “selling of religion” and the “selling of education”. Always the offered – economical or spiritual – commodity has to be cheap, accessible to the last one in the mass.

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