LIE LOW • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Lie low

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/laɪ loʊ/ Listen

Lie low

verb

Keep a low profile, try to be inconspicuous.

To try to avoid detection especially by police.

See more definitions of Lie low...

See images of 'Lie low'

Etymology of 'Lie low'

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Lie low" Quotes from Famous Books

... Hooper writes, "Noonahmone," does not lie low, like the Chukch villages we had formerly seen, on the sea-shore, but pretty high up on a cape between the sea and a river which debouches immediately to the south-west of the village, and now during the snow-melting season ...

— The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II • A.E. Nordenskieold

... you'll have that pleasure one day, Jack. I hope so, anyhow. Now, straight, Jack, you need not be frightened of your brother saying a word. He could never risk Corker hearing of it, for he could not bear the chance of expulsion, so he'll lie low as far as Corker is concerned, take my word for it. He may hand you over to your father, but that, too, I doubt. He may give you a thrashing himself, which ...

— Acton's Feud - A Public School Story • Frederick Swainson

... want anybody 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

... he, amused. "What did I say? Why—if you want to do right, be strong or you'll be crushed; and if you want to do wrong, take care again to be strong—or you'll be crushed. My moral is, be strong! In this world the good weaklings and the bad weaklings had better lie low, hide in the tall grass. The strong ...

— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips

... "but it's about as good as anything else to lie low and wait on." But here two customers entered, and he turned to them, leaving me in doubt whether to accept this as a verbal pleasantry or an admission. Only one thing seemed plain: I had certainly ...

— Colonel Starbottle's Client and Other Stories • Bret Harte

More quotes...