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Also, hide one's head . Feel shame or embarrassment. For example, You needn't hide your face—you're not to blame , or Whenever the teacher singled her out for something, shy little Mary hid her head . This idiom alludes to the gesture indicative of these feelings. [Late 1500s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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