unter Tage
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Literally: “under day”. In the mining sense, Tag refers to the (sun-lit) surface of the earth. In the temporal sense, unter is used in the sense of “during”, which is an Upper German idiom, except in the universally common phrase unter der Woche (“during the week”).
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- (chiefly mining, sometimes construction) underground, belowground, in a shaft or tunnel
- Antonym: über Tage
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- (Austria, Switzerland, sometimes Southern Germany) during the daytime