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poor waif in his underwear 

A person who blows their cover as a Kremlin propagandist.
“Seymour Hersh was a poor waif in his underwear when quoting his source, a supposed “anonymous US official”, who used the russian idiom “waif in his underwear”, which until then was not used in English.”

a poor waif in his underwear 

A pro-Russian journalist or Russian/Kremlin official who attempts to pass off fake quotes as real things said by government or military officials in Western countries but are clearly fake due to translated Russian phrases, strange wording, words being used in strange or unnatural ways, etc.

The phrase comes from an article written by Seymour Kersh, a pro-Russian journalist. In the article, he claimed an anonymous American official called President Zelenskyy of Ukraine 'a poor waif in his underwear'. However, the term 'waif' is extremely uncommon in American English, and the whole phrase was a Russian meme until the publishing of the article.
Seymour Hersh was a poor waif in his underwear when quoting his source, a supposed 'anonymous US official', who used the Russian idiom 'a poor waif in his underwear', which until then was not used in English.

Pro-Kremlin social media users were floundering like poor waifs in their underwear to dismiss the initial use of 'a poor waif in his underwear' as a mere translation issue without explaining why there would be a translation issue between a US journalist and a US official.

a poor waif in his underwear 

a person who has blown their cover as a Kremlin propagandist, especially when it is unclear they even knew they were one
Seymour Hersh was a poor waif in his underwear when quoting his source, a supposed “anonymous US official”, who used the russian idiom “waif in his underwear”, which until then was not used in English.

tucked like underarmor 

To conceal carry a firearm at all times.
Friend: bro, I’m nervous what happens if somebody tries to rob us?

Friend: don’t worry, I got that heater tucked like underarmor.

Underwear Streaks 

When you shit yourself, or fart loudly enough that a bit of shit sprays out and stains your underwear with brown streaks.
Dude I just loud farted and it left me with underwear streaks. I may just throw them away at this point.
Underwear Streaks by Soapey August 3, 2019

underverse 

An amazing animated series by Jael Peñaloza. It has finished 1 season with six episodes and has an opening done for the second. It includes Undertale, Underfell, Underswap, Outertale, Fresh, Ink, Error, Dream, Nightmare, Core!Frisk, Cross, Cross Chara, Killer, and partly, XTale.
Person 1: Hey dude you know what Underverse is?
Person 2: No, what is-
Person 1: OH MY GOD IT HAS AAAAAAAAAA