под маркой

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[PrepP; Invar; Prep; the resulting PrepP is adv]

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⇒ (to do sth.) concealing one's true motives by adopting a false cover, acting in an insincere manner etc (as specified):

- under the guise <the pretext> of.

     ♦ Сосед был человек неважнецкий. Комнату занял нахраписто после войны под маркой того, что инвалид (Трифонов 1). This neighbor was not a very nice man. He had seized his own one-room apartment right after the war, and rather highhandedly, under the guise of being a disabled veteran (1a).