| 词组 | make (oneself) scarce |
| 释义 | make (oneself) scarceTo leave, hide, or make oneself less visible, typically to avoid something. Lisa's fuming about your text message, so you better make yourself scarce until she calms down. Why is it that when there are chores to do, the kids somehow know to make themselves scarce? make oneself scarceFig. [for someone] to become difficult to find; [for someone to] go into hiding. Tom is mad and is looking for you. Better make yourself scarce. Make yourself scarce! Here comes the sheriff. make oneself scarceDepart quickly, go away, as in The children saw Mrs. Frost coming and made themselves scarce. This idiom applies scarce in the sense of "seldom seen" to removing one's presence. [c. 1800] make yourself scarcesurreptitiously disappear; keep out of the way. informalˌmake yourself ˈscarce(informal) leave the place you are in in order to avoid an embarrassing or difficult situation: I could see they wanted to be alone, so I made myself scarce.make oneself scarce tv. to leave; to be in a place less frequently; to be less in evidence. Here come the boys in blue. I’d better make myself scarce. make (oneself) scarceInformal1. To stay away; be absent or elusive. 2. To depart, especially quickly or furtively; abscond. |
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