HIDE ONE'S HEAD IN THE SAND

Meaning of HIDE ONE'S HEAD IN THE SAND in English

To keep from seeing, knowing, or understanding something dangerous or unpleasant; to refuse to see or face something. If there is a war, you cannot just bury your head in the sand.

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HIDE ONE'S HEAD IN THE SAND — = have one's head in the sand
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SAND — I Mineral, rock, or soil particles that are 0. 0008–0.08 in. (0.02–2 mm) in diameter. Most rock-forming minerals are found …
Английский словарь Британика
SAND — I. ˈsand, ˈsaa(ə)nd noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English sond, sand, from Old English; akin to Old High German …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ONE — I. |wən adjective Etymology: Middle English oon, on, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
IN — I. (|)in, ən; usu ə n after t, d, s, or z as in “split in two”, often ə m …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HIDE — I. ˈhīd noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English hyde, from Old English hīgid, hīd; akin to Old English hīwan …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
SAND — — sandable , adj. — sandless , adj. — sandlike , adj. /sand/ , n. 1. the more or less …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — /wun/ , adj. 1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HIDE — hide 1 — hidable , adj. — hidability , n. — hider , n. /huyd/ , v. , hid, hidden …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HEAD — — headlike , adj. /hed/ , n. 1. the upper part of the body in humans, joined to the trunk …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SAND — I. ˈsand noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English; akin to Old High German sant sand, Latin sabulum, Greek psammos …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ONE — I. ˈwən adjective Etymology: Middle English on, an, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HIDE — I. ˈhīd noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English hīgid, hīd Date: before 12th century : any of various old …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SAND — noun courage; pluck; grit. 2. sand ·vt to drive upon the sand. 3. sand ·noun a single particle of such …
Webster English vocab
HIDE — noun an abode or dwelling. 2. hide ·noun the human skin; so called in contempt. 3. hide ·vt to …
Webster English vocab
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Webster English vocab
SAND — [sand] n [ME, fr. OE; akin to OHG sant sand, L sabulum, Gk psammos] (bef. 12c) 1 a: a loose …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HIDE — [hide] n [ME, fr. OE higid, hid] (bef. 12c): any of various old English units of land area; esp: a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
HIDE — the pelt taken from a cow, steer, or bull of the bovine species, from the pelt of a horse, or …
Britannica English vocabulary
SAND — sand BrE AmE sænd ▷ sanded ˈsænd ɪd -əd ▷ sanding ˈsænd ɪŋ ▷ sands sændz ▶ ˈ sand ˌ …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SAND — / sænd; NAmE / noun , verb ■ noun 1. [ U ] a substance that consists of very small …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HIDE — / haɪd; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( hid / hɪd; NAmE / hid·den / ˈhɪdn; NAmE /) …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SAND — I. sand 1 S3 W3 /sænd/ BrE AmE noun [ Language: Old English ] 1 . [uncountable] a substance consisting …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ONE — I. one 1 S1 W1 /wʌn/ BrE AmE number 1 . the number 1: They had one daughter. one hundred …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SAND — n. & v. --n. 1 a loose granular substance resulting from the wearing down of esp. siliceous rocks and found …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HIDE — n. & v. --n. 1 the skin of an animal, esp. when tanned or dressed. 2 colloq. the human skin …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HIDE — v. & n. --v. (past hid; past part. hidden or archaic hid) 1 tr. put or keep out of sight …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HEAD — n., adj., & v. --n. 1 the upper part of the human body, or the foremost or upper part of …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SAND — n. & v. n. 1 a loose granular substance resulting from the wearing down of esp. siliceous rocks and found …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ONE — adj., n., & pron. adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HIDE — n. & v. n. 1 the skin of an animal, esp. when tanned or dressed. 2 colloq. the human skin …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HIDE — v. & n. v. (past hid; past part. hidden or archaic hid) 1 tr. put or keep out of sight …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HEAD — n., adj., & v. n. 1 the upper part of the human body, or the foremost or upper part of …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SAND — n. & v. --n. 1. a loose granular substance resulting from the wearing down of esp. siliceous rocks and found …
Oxford English vocab
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1. single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Oxford English vocab
HIDE — 1. v. & n. --v. (past hid; past part. hidden or archaic hid) 1. tr. put or keep out of …
Oxford English vocab
HEAD — n., adj., & v. --n. 1. the upper part of the human body, or the foremost or upper part of …
Oxford English vocab
SAND — ( sands, sanding, sanded) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Sand is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE — ( ones) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. One is the number …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HIDE — ( hides, hiding, hid, hidden) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HEAD — ( heads, heading, headed) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. Note: 'Head' is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SAND — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES gravel/sand/chalk pit sand bar sand dune sand fly COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE coarse …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HIDE — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a hidden meaning ▪ She felt there was a hidden meaning behind his words. …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SAND — (SMALL GRAINS) [noun] [U] - (a mass of) very small grains which used to be rock and which form deserts …
Cambridge English vocab
SAND — n. black sand Great Sand Dunes National Monument Sand Creek Massacre sand dollar sand dune sand flea sand fly sand …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
HIDE — Synonyms and related words : Australian seal, Leatherette, Leatheroid, accumulate, amass, backlog, be consumed, be gone, be incognito, bearskin, beat, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HIDE — I. noun ADJECTIVE ▪ thick , tough ▪ Elephants have a very tough ~. ▪ leathery , scaly ▪ raw …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
HIDE — INDEX: 1. to hide something especially by putting it in a secret place 2. to hide yourself 3. to hide …
Longman Activator English vocab
HIDE — See ↑ HIDE 1,2,4,7,8 ◆◆◆ • ↑ can't hide • ↑ place to hide
Longman Activator English vocab
HIDE — v. 1 conceal, secrete, cache, squirrel away; go underground, take cover, lie low, go into hiding, lurk, go to ground, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
ONE — pronoun 1 BAD : Fluency in English is one of the best qualifications you can have. GOOD : Fluency in …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
SAND — 1. сущ. 1) а) песок; гравий to scatter, spread, sprinkle, strew sand ≈ насыпать песок, посыпать песком coarse sand ≈ …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HIDE — I 1. сущ. 1) кожа, шкура Syn : skin 1., fell I 2) шутл. кожа (человека) to tan smb.'s hide …
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