lie low

Meaning

1. Oxford75% of films

   to try not to attract attention to yourself

   I figure we lie low a couple days, we let the panic dissipate.

In the movies · 19

• We went to my colleague Carl's house to lay low.Bird Box2018
• Lay low and keep your mouth shut.His Girl Friday1940
• I figure it's a good place to lay low.Avengers: Age of Ultron2015
• I need you to lie low.Cruella2021
• The orcs are lying low.The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003
• I figure we lie low a couple days, we let the panic dissipate.Extraction2020
• LA's a good place to lie low for a while.The Usual Suspects1995
• Use your heads, lie low, and I promise no one will hurt you.Eraser1996

Learn it in full scenes

• His Girl Friday1940
  • Hildy Tells Walter She's Remarrying
  • Hildy Quits the Post
  • Walter Meets Bruce Baldwin

From the same entry

• lie ahead store
• lie in state
• lie in wait
• take lying down
• you've made your bed and you must lie in it
• be at the bottom of
• hang heavy
• see, how the land lies
• let sleeping dogs lie
• lie around
• lie back
• lie behind

More idioms

• make a move on
• make blood boil
• nine times out of ten
• not in the slightest
• not know the first thing about
• not take kindly to
• one thing leads to another
• poke your nose into
• push to the back of your mind
• shut the door in face
• take a back seat
• the icing on the cake