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on the Q.T.

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Secretly, as in They told her on the Q.T. that she was being promoted. This slangy term, in which Q.T. is an abbreviation for “quiet,” was first recorded in 1884.

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on the other hand, on the outs, on the part of, on the point of, on the prowl, on the Q.T., on the qui vive, on the rack, on the rebound, on the receiving end, on-the-record
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