be in/under sb's shadow
to always receive less attention than someone else:
She's always been under her sister's shadow.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Of little or less importance
- be neither here nor there idiom
- be no big deal idiom
- biggie
- derisory
- fiddling
- fringe
- inferior
- minor
- miss
- mouldy
- need
- neither
- peripheral
- petty
- rinky-dink
- sideshow
- small-time
- stay
- stay on the sidelines idiom
- subordinate
See more results »