"fly under the radar" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From military contexts, where aircraft would fly low to avoid being detected by radar.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flies under the radar",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flying under the radar",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flew under the radar",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flown under the radar",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fly<,,flew,flown> under the radar"
      },
      "expansion": "fly under the radar (third-person singular simple present flies under the radar, present participle flying under the radar, simple past flew under the radar, past participle flown under the radar)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go unnoticed, especially for a long period of time."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "unnoticed",
          "unnoticed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To go unnoticed, especially for a long period of time."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "slip under the radar"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to go unnoticed",
          "word": "piilotella"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to go unnoticed",
          "word": "gå under radarn"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "to go unnoticed",
          "word": "flyga under radarn"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "fly under the radar"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "From military contexts, where aircraft would fly low to avoid being detected by radar.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flies under the radar",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flying under the radar",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flew under the radar",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flown under the radar",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fly<,,flew,flown> under the radar"
      },
      "expansion": "fly under the radar (third-person singular simple present flies under the radar, present participle flying under the radar, simple past flew under the radar, past participle flown under the radar)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English verbs",
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
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        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To go unnoticed, especially for a long period of time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "unnoticed",
          "unnoticed"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To go unnoticed, especially for a long period of time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "slip under the radar"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to go unnoticed",
      "word": "piilotella"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to go unnoticed",
      "word": "gå under radarn"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to go unnoticed",
      "word": "flyga under radarn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "fly under the radar"
}