Phrase info Synonyms

in hiding

Speech parts

1. in hiding - Adverb

2. in hiding - Phrase

Meaning

quietly in concealment

Source: WordNet

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Examples

Two tasks at the beginning of your life: to narrow your orbit more and more, and ever and again to check whether you are not in hiding somewhere outside your orbit. Franz Kafka

But nothing mattered today, neither the kindness nor the cruelty. We were in hiding for our lives because we were white. Pearl S. Buck

I wanted a baby of color, to be honest, because I wasn't attached to the idea that I look like the biological mother. I liked the idea of the adoption being clear; it was and is not something I am interested in hiding. Jennifer Gilmore

The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order. Thomas Merton

Little snakes need to grow in hiding. Haitian Proverb

There are more whores in hiding than there are public ones. Russian Proverb

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