go to earth
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go to earth
To hide at a location where one will not easily be found. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. I needed to go to earth at my vacation home after making that huge blunder at work.
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go to earth
BRITISHIf you go to earth, you hide from someone or something. The girl who had supplied the guns stayed put for a couple of weeks before she, too, went to earth. Compare with go to ground. Note: A fox's hole is called an earth. In hunting, this expression is used to refer to a fox hiding in its earth.
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go to earth
go into hiding.Go to earth is used literally of a hunted animal hiding in a burrow or earth. Compare with go to ground (at ground).
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go to ˈearth/ˈground
(British English) hide, especially to escape from somebody who is chasing you: His family never saw him again. He went to ground and they heard nothing else of him until he died last year.This expression refers to a fox hiding underground when it is hunted.
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