lie down under

lie down under (something)

To rest or recline on one's back beneath something. We lay down under the large oak tree in the fields behind grandfather's cottage to escape the heat of the sun. All I want to do on vacation is lie down under an umbrella on the beach and sleep or read.
See also: down, lie
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

lie down under something

to lie down beneath something. She was tired, so she lay down under a willow tree by the brook. The dog lay down under a lawn chair and slept.
See also: down, lie
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • lie down under (something)
  • lie down on
  • lie down on (someone or something)
  • lay behind (someone or something)
  • relax into
  • relax into (something)
  • in (one's) second childhood
  • in second childhood
  • lie alongside
  • lie alongside (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
But I can tell you now (pronounced ''nyyyyy'') that the croppies wouldn't lie down under the Penal Laws - and we today are not prepared to lie down under these new Penile Laws''.
John McBlain's column: Very strange bedfellows