keep your head down

Meaning

1. Oxford100% of films

   to avoid attracting attention to yourself

In the movies · 13

• Trust me, I'm going to keep my head down and make it.Cruella2021
• -Sorry, Jim. l gotta-- -Keep your head down?The Dark Knight Rises2012
• As long as I keep my floor clean, keep my head down,The Terminal2004
• Keep your head down.Madame Web2024
• Keep your head down.Gone Girl2014
• Keep your head downAnt-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania2023
• Keep your head down, pal.The Mist2007
• Do your work, keep your head down.Hidden Figures2016

Learn it in full scenes

• The Mist2007
  • The Mist Reaches the Store
  • David Argues With His Neighbor
  • David Argues the Mist Is Real

From the same entry

• a head
• bang your heads together
• be banging, your head against a brick wall
• be head and shoulders above
• bite head off
• bring to a head
• bury your head in the sand
• can't make head nor tail of
• do head in
• do standing on your head
• from head to foot
• get your head down

More idioms

• put out of your mind
• a different ball game
• a fact of life
• a matter of hours
• be glued to
• be struck by
• first off
• fly out the window
• have in mind
• if all else fails
• not hear the end of it
• so much for