hide away

hide away

See also: hideaway

English

Verb

hide away (third-person singular simple present hides away, present participle hiding away, simple past hid away, past participle hidden away)

  1. (transitive) To stash or store something in a secret location.
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
      ‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’
    • 1979, Cheryl Lynn, “Hide It Away”, in In Love:
      You gotta take it hide it away / I′ve been told that it's much better / When you′re growing old, taking life easy / But you have to know where your life will go
  2. (intransitive) To hide, to be hidden.
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