slink in
slink in
To enter some place in a quiet, sneaky, inconspicuous, or furtive manner. The burglar slunk in without making a sound. Marty came slinking in the room, late to class as usual.
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slink in(to something)
to creep into something. The cat slunk into the hallway and lay down in the middle of the floor. I left the door ajar and a cat slunk in.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
And then you
slink in the door and find your fellow apostles gabbling about your dead master, Jesus, as being no longer dead but alive.
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