lie low meaning
- Verb: lie low lI low
- Keep a low profile, try to be inconspicuous
- To try to avoid detection especially by police
"After we knock off that liquor store we'll have to lie low for a while"
Derived forms: lain low, lying low, lay low, lies low
[American idiom]
to keep quiet and not be noticed; to avoid being conspicuous. (Informal. Lay is a common error for lie.)
• I suggest you lie low for a few days.
• The robber said that he would lay low for a short time after the robbery.
[American slang]
Fig. to keep quiet and not be noticed; to avoid being conspicuous. (Lay is a common error for lie.)
I suggest you lie low for a few days.
The robber said that he would lay low for a short time after the robbery.
Examples
- More: Next
- better lie low until this affair blows over
- i shall lie low and pretend to know nothing about it
- linda : just lie low for the day . i'll handle everything
- until the dispute is settled, you would do best to lie low
- after the third robbery, the thieves decided to lie low for a time
