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hole up
verb
- (of an animal) to hibernate, esp in a cave
- informal.to hide or remain secluded
Idioms and Phrases
Take refuge or shelter, hide, as in I spent most of the cruise holed up in my cabin . This usage alludes to animals hibernating in winter or hiding from attack in caves or holes. [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
He frequently holes up at a back table for hours with his laptop and mounds of documents, stopping only to take calls outside while my wife’s workers keep an eye on his stuff.
Or stay holed up at home, with dwindling resources, to lessen the chance of being pulled over?
A day later, outside the Santa Monica hotel where she’s been holed up with her husband, four kids and pets, she sounded less certain.
Lazar said he remembered what it was like to be holed up in his room during the pandemic, trying to make it through day after day of middle school.
For the past month, a defiant 64-year-old Yoon was holed up inside his presidential compound in central Seoul, as his supporters and detractors rallied outside.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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