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hide out

Idioms  

  1. Go into or stay in hiding, especially from the authorities. For example, The cattle thieves hid out in the canyon, or He decided to hide out from the press. [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

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“I’ll hide out in one of these stalls until the end of the day and then I’ll call my mom to pick me up.”

From Literature

What kid would choose to hide out at school?

From Literature

It ends with a call to ditch the madness and hide out in McDonald’s till January.

From Los Angeles Times

He and his family now hide out in Kabul from the Taliban.

From The Wall Street Journal

That is until Maia and Alani ignore a sign to stay downstairs and find him hiding out in his bedroom watching YouTube videos on a big TV; the latter freaks out and leaves the room.

From Los Angeles Times

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