hide away
See also: hideaway
English
Verb
hide away (third-person singular simple present hides away, present participle hiding away, simple past hid away, past participle hidden away)
- (transitive) To stash or store something in a secret location.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
- (intransitive) To hide, to be hidden.
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