go to ground

go to ground

To hide at a location where one will not easily be found. I needed to go to ground at my vacation home after making that huge blunder at work.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

go to ground

BRITISH
If you go to ground, you hide from someone or something. Either he'd left town or gone to ground. He left the hotel and went to ground in the station waiting-room. It was a safe place. Compare with go to earth. Note: In hunting, this expression is used to refer to a fox escaping into its hole.
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Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed.

go to ground

1 (of a fox or other animal) enter its earth or burrow to hide, especially when being hunted. 2 (of a person) hide or become inaccessible, usually for a prolonged period.
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Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary

go to ˈearth/ˈground

(British English) hide, especially to escape from somebody who is chasing you: His family never saw him again. He went to ground and they heard nothing else of him until he died last year.
This expression refers to a fox hiding underground when it is hunted.
See also: earth, go, ground
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • have (one's) hide
  • have hide
  • hide
  • sausage
  • hide the sausage
  • tan (one's) hide
  • tan hide
  • tan someone's hide
  • hide nor hair, neither
  • neither hide nor hair of someone
References in periodicals archive
According to the official ONE FC website, Huang has been training in some of Japan's most prestigious gyms to prepare for the match with Iniong, who says she expects the bout to go to ground combat, but she feels her skills are more than enough to deal with the grappler from Taiwan.
And when you are on a yellow card, why go to ground? "There is no way he should be going to ground (in the challenge that led to his second yellow).
Allardyce said: "M'Vila didn't need to go to ground. The player sees the tack le and goes, 'I'm going down', and he c a n ' t a rg u e .
Although Moses appeared to go to ground too easily, in Hughes' mind contact was made when Angel Rangel conceded a penalty at the Britannia Stadium last week.
"My view on Cardiff's penalty is that it was very soft and the player (Fraizer Campbell) has looked for a movement from Steve N'Zonzi that would enable him to go to ground.
Kerry could quibble that Mayo skipper Andy Moran could also have received a black card when he pulled back Daithi Casey but, crucially, the Kerry attacker did not go to ground.
"It is so difficult to make big calls at the moment because you have certain players that more often than not try to simulate and try to go to ground easily.
If it had been Leigh Griffiths going on to his left side I would have said to O'Leary he was right to go to ground. But against Cairney it was a mistake as he gave the Hibs kid a leg to fall over.
So father time has come around It's time to swim, not go to ground We're ready again to pass the test This swim's our freedom, and that's no jest.
We haven't said much because he decided back in the spring to go to ground. He ceased making public appearances, although previously he would usually be seen in photos standing beside the president at all sorts of functions.
There was enough contact for me to lose my balance and people know I do not go to ground easily." He added: "I thought Liverpool put in a good performance and I thought their 'keeper Jose Reina was their best player and made some good saves, but we were the better side."
The Probation Service is well aware of the increased risk to the public when offenders are forced to go to ground. Offenders cannot be safely managed or monitored if their whereabouts are unknown.
And poor old Bob Ainsworth, He should really go to ground, A three-piece suite, oh how nice, Costing two thousand pounds.
People are allowed to go to ground here and Ferrie has to understand that, it has to be part of his education in football.
Bet365 go 12-1 that Wright-Phillips gets cautioned for diving in Chelsea's remaining league and cup games and have priced up other Blues rogues who, how shall we put it, go to ground a tad too easily.