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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
The cousins are content to spend the weekend holed up with each other, sorting through the past and measuring the distance between them.
In reality, he was holed up just outside London and Maria was buried at the lovers' rendezvous, having been shot in the neck.
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.
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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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