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Definition of Lie low
1. Verb. Keep a low profile, try to be inconspicuous.
2. Verb. To try to avoid detection especially by police. "After we knock off that liquor store we'll have to lay low for a while"
Definition of Lie low
1. Verb. (intransitive) To conceal oneself; to remain hidden. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lie Low
Literary usage of Lie low
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabeth and Her German Garden by Elizabeth (1900)
"The Hirschwald is an enchanted place on such an evening, when the mists lie low
on the turf, and overhead the delicate, bare branches of the silver birches ..."
2. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver August Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1898)
"... construed as to exclude from the estate those pieces of ground which lie low
and adjoining the sea-shore, and would, according to the usual presumption, ..."
3. Memoirs of the Public and Private Life of John Howard, the Philanthropist by James Baldwin Brown (1823)
"My God I take shame to myself lie low before Thee and cry earnestly for pardon
Mercy and forgiveness for Christ's sake — would to God I had Wisdom given me ..."
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