hide from (someone or something)
hide from (someone or something)
1. To physically conceal someone or something so as to avoid detection by someone or something else. In this usage, a noun or pronoun is used between "hide" and "from." You need to hide these cookies from the kids if you plan to have any left for the bake sale tomorrow. Luckily, my bodyguard hid me from the attackers.
2. To physically conceal oneself as a way to avoid someone or something. Mom, you just yelled at her—of course she's hiding from you! A: "What are you guys doing on the porch?" B: "Oh, just hiding from the rain."
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
hide from someone (or an animal)
to conceal oneself from someone or an animal. Are you hiding from me? The rabbit was trying to hide from the fox.
See also: hide
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- bear off from (someone or something)
- be rough on (someone or something)
- be/have done with somebody/something
- be in line with (someone or something)
- better of
- (someone or something) promises well
- begin with
- begin with (someone or something)
- bird has flown, the
- beware of