underbelly
Noun
Meaning
The underside of an animal.
We identified the species of the snake by its blue-grey underbelly.
The underside of any thing.
(figuratively) The side which is not normally seen, normally a dark, immoral place.
The area by the canal is the underbelly of town – not something you’d see in the guidebooks.
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Examples
By contrast, 1975's Coney Island Baby was mainly a warm and mellow album, though for its characters Reed still drew on the underbelly of city life.
Lynch and Rodley 2005. p. 110. Another theme is the dark underbelly of violent criminal activity within a society, such as with Frank's gang in Blue Velvet and the cocaine smugglers in Twin Peaks.
Mistle Thrush - which a have black-spotted cream underbelly - are on the list of endangered British birds, with the number of mating pairs plummeting in recent years due to habitat destruction.
It is blotchy brown or red-brown in color, with a paler underbelly.
Let me just do that right now for all you listening out there because I have been dumbfounded by it as well, but the explanation is pretty clear if you know what’s happening on the underbelly of how these campaigns are run.
These fish are iridescent blue-green above with a silvery underbelly and twenty to thirty near vertical wavy black stripes running across their upper body.