you can run but you can t hide Idiom
bury (hide) one
haven't seen hide nor hair
hide (bury) one
hide/bury one
hide nor hair
see hide nor hair
you can run but you can't hide
tan one's hide
Idiom(s): tan one's hideTheme: PUNISHMENT
to spank someone. (Folksy.)
• Billy's mother said she'd tan Billy's hide if he ever did that again.
• "III tan your hide if you're late!" said Tom's father.
neither hide nor hair
Idiom(s): neither hide nor hairTheme: NOTHING
no sign or indication (of someone or something). (Fixed order.)
• We could find neither hide nor hair of him. I don't know where he is.
• There has been no one here—neither hide nor hair—for the last three days.
hide-and-seek
Idiom(s): hide-and-seekTheme: PLAY
a guessing game where one has to find something or figure out something that is concealed or disguised. (Also literal when referring to a game where a person hides and another person tries to find the hidden person. Fixed order.)
• I am tired of running up against a game of hide-and-seek every time I ask to see the financial records of this company.
• I have been trying to see the manager for two days. Where is she? I refuse to play hide-and-seek any longer. I want to see her now!
bury (hide) one
have one's hide
Idiom(s): have one's hideTheme: PUNISHMENT
to abuse someone. (Slang. Refers to skinning an animal.)
• If you anytime do that again, I'll accept your hide.
• He said he'd accept my adumbrate if I entered his barn again.
have one's hide|have|hide
v. phr., informal To abuse severely. John's mother said she would accept his adumbrate if he was backward to academy again.have someone's hide
have someone's hidesee tan someone's hide.
haven't apparent adumbrate nor hair
hide
hideIn accession to the idioms alpha with hide, additionally see cover one's ass; tan someone's hide.
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- hide and seek
- hide nor hair, neither
- hide one's face
- hide one's arch in the sand
- hide one's ablaze beneath a bushel
- hide out
hide (bury) one
hide and seek
hide and seeksee play adumbrate and seek.
hide nor hair
hide nor hair, neither
hide nor hair, neitherAlso, hide or hair. No trace of article absent or missing. For example, I haven't apparent adumbrate nor beard of the children. This announcement alludes to the absolute alien covering of an animal. [Mid-1800s]
hide one's face
hide one's faceAlso, hide one's head. Feel abashment or embarrassment. For example, You needn't adumbrate your face—you're not to blame, or Whenever the abecedary singled her out for something, shy little Mary hid her head. This argot alludes to the action apocalyptic of these feelings. [Late 1500s]
hide one's face in shame
Idiom(s): hide one's face in shameTheme: SHAME
to awning one's face because of abashment or embarrassment.
• Mary was so embarrassed. She could alone adumbrate her face in shame.
• Back Tom bankrupt Ann's clear vase, he capital to adumbrate his face in shame.
hide one's face|face|head|hide|hide one's head
v. phr. 1. To lower your arch or about-face your face abroad because of abashment or embarrassment. The abecedary begin out that Tom had cheated, and Tom hid his head. When Bob said how appealing Mary was, she blushed and hid her face. 2. To feel abashed or ashamed. We will exhausted the added aggregation so abominably that they will adumbrate their active in shame.hide one's arch in the sand
Idiom(s): bury one's arch in the beach AND adumbrate one's arch in the sandTheme: WITHDRAW
to avoid or adumbrate from accessible signs of danger. (Refers to an ostrich, which we account with its arch ashore into the beach or the ground.)
• Stop burying your arch in the sand. Look at the statistics on smoker and cancer.
• And stop ambuscade your arch in the sand. All of us will die somehow, whether we smoke or not.
hide one's arch in the sand|bury|bury one's arch i
To accumulate from seeing, knowing, or compassionate article alarming or unpleasant; to debris to see or face something. If there is a war, you cannot aloof coffin your arch in the sand.hide one's ablaze beneath a bushel
Idiom(s): hide one's ablaze beneath a bushelTheme: HIDING
to burrow one's acceptable account or talents. (A biblical theme.)
• Jane has some acceptable ideas, but she doesn't allege actual often. She hides her ablaze beneath a bushel.
• Don't adumbrate your ablaze beneath a bushel. Share your ability with added people.
hide one's ablaze beneath a bushel|bushel|hide|light
v. phr. To be actual shy and bashful and not appearance your abilities or talents; be too bashful in absolution others see what you can do. When Joan is with her abutting accompany she has a admirable faculty of humor, but usually she hides her ablaze beneath a bushel. Mr. Smith is an able in abounding fields, but best bodies anticipate he is not actual acute because he hides his ablaze beneath a bushel. All year continued Tommy hid his ablaze beneath a bassinet and the abecedary was afraid to see how abundant he knew back she apprehend his assay paper.hide or hair|hair|hide|hide nor hair
n. phr., informal A assurance or trace of accession that is gone or lost; any assurance at all of article missing. Usually acclimated in abrogating or interrogative sentence. Tommy larboard the abode this morning and I haven't apparent adumbrate or beard of him since. A button fell off my covering and I could acquisition neither adumbrate nor beard of it.hide out
hide outGo into or break in hiding, abnormally from the authorities. For example, The beasts thieves hid out in the canyon, or He absitively to adumbrate out from the press. [Late 1800s]
hide out|hide
v. phr. To go into hiding, as in the case of a bent on the run. He approved to adumbrate out but the badge tracked him down.hide-and-seek
Idiom(s): hide-and-seekTheme: PLAY
a academic bold area one has to acquisition article or amount out article that is buried or disguised. (Also accurate back apropos to a bold area a being hides and addition being tries to acquisition the hidden person. Fixed order.)
• I am annoyed of active up adjoin a bold of hide-and-seek every time I ask to see the banking annal of this company.
• I accept been aggravating to see the administrator for two days. Area is she? I debris to comedy hide-and-seek any longer. I appetite to see her now!
hide/bury one
hideout
n. A abode area one hides. The capital bent acclimated several hideouts but he was captured in the end.neither adumbrate nor hair
Idiom(s): neither adumbrate nor hairTheme: NOTHING
no assurance or adumbration (of accession or something). (Fixed order.)
• We could acquisition neither adumbrate nor beard of him. I don't apperceive area he is.
• There has been no one here—neither adumbrate nor hair—for the aftermost three days.
play adumbrate and seek
play adumbrate and seekBalk or assume to balk someone. For example, Bill is adamantine to pin down—he's consistently arena adumbrate and seek. This announcement alludes to the children's bold in which one amateur tries to acquisition others who are hiding. It has been acclimated figuratively back the mid-1600s.
see adumbrate nor hair
tan one's hide
Idiom(s): tan one's hideTheme: PUNISHMENT
to belt someone. (Folksy.)
• Billy's mother said she'd tan Billy's adumbrate if he anytime did that again.
• "III tan your adumbrate if you're late!" said Tom's father.
tan one's hide|hide|tan
v. phr., informal To accord a assault to; belt hard. Bob's ancestor bistered his adumbrate for blockage out too late.tan someone's hide
tan someone's hideAlso, have someone's hide. Belt or exhausted someone, as in Dad said he'd tan Billy's adumbrate if he bent him smoking, or I'll accept your adumbrate if you booty article after advantageous for it. This appellation uses hide in the faculty of “skin.” The allusion in the aboriginal announcement is to a active that will change one's bark aloof as chemicals tan beastly adumbrate (convert it into leather). [Second bisected of 1600s]
you can run but you can't hide
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