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Lie low

verb

Keep a low profile, try to be inconspicuous.

To try to avoid detection especially by police.

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"Lie low" Quotes from Famous Books

... shed their leaves: Our heads lie low there, but no tears flow there; Only I grieve ...

— The Haunted Hour - An Anthology • Various

... there is no one that knows me," and a disciple asked what was meant, he replied, "I do not murmur against God. I do not mumble against man. My studies lie low, and my penetration lies high. But there ...

— Religions of Ancient China • Herbert A. Giles

... to know?" he said in his outspoken way. "Right you are. I can lie low and say nothing, or lie hard and say what you like; whichever ...

— Simon • J. Storer Clouston

... go a lot simpler if everybody would cut out most of the feelings department, and just eat their meals and look after their animals and play all they get time for, and then go to sleep quietly. Fussing is such a depravity. But they wouldn't do what I said, not if I told them, so I lie low and think. ...

— The Whole Family - A Novel by Twelve Authors • William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Mary Heaton Vorse, Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jo

... shall lie low in earth, in crumbling wood. And clustering stars shall gem the noon of day, Ere on so sweet a dawn ...

— The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch • Petrarch

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