hide in

hide in (something)

1. To physically conceal someone or something in some thing or place so as to avoid detection. In this usage, a noun or pronoun can be used between "hide" and "in." Hide Susie in the bathroom and tell her to jump out and yell "Surprise!" when Mom gets here. A: "It is true that Paul's hiding an engagement ring in his sock drawer?" B: "Yeah, and his would-be fiancée already found it!"
2. To physically conceal oneself in some thing or place so as to avoid detection. Susie's hiding in the bathroom until Mom gets home—then, she's going to jump out and yell "Surprise!" Apparently, all the shrieking was because Lily found crickets hiding in the laundry basket.
See also: hide
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hide something in something

to conceal something inside something. She hid her money in a book. Let's hide the cake in this closet.
See also: hide
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • rescue from
  • rescue from (someone or something)
  • orient
  • orient to
  • orient to (something)
  • spiff up
  • spiffed up
  • back into
  • back into (someone or something)
  • angling
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While visas are customarily granted to immigrant spouses of heterosexual citizens, they are invariably denied to alien partners of homosexual Americans, forcing gay and lesbian couples of mixed nationality to live in separate lands, lie and hide in the United States, or break up altogether.
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