take shelter
Meaning
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.
Synonyms
Examples
I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.
When the sky's falling, I take shelter under bullshit.
The tree bears the intense heat on its head while it lessens the heat for those who take shelter under it.
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.
During a storm you do not take shelter under just one roofing tile.
Eden residents prepare to take shelter aboard a tug boat at the town’s wharf.