A phrase meaning to seek protection from danger, bad weather, or threats. People take shelter to stay safe until the risk passes, often indoors or under sturdy cover.
I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter. Girolamo Savonarola
When the sky's falling, I take shelter under bullshit. Scott Lynch
The tree bears the intense heat on its head while it lessens the heat for those who take shelter under it. Kālidāsa
Lying... is so ill a quality, and the mother of so many ill ones that spawn from it, and take shelter under it, that a child should be brought up in the greatest abhorrence of it imaginable. It should be always spoke of before him with the utmost detestation, as. John Locke
During a storm you do not take shelter under just one roofing tile. Bayansi Proverb
Eden residents prepare to take shelter aboard a tug boat at the town’s wharf. Source: Internet