I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a hidden meaning
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She felt there was a hidden meaning behind his words.
a hidden motive
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She wondered if there was a hidden motive for his departure.
a hidden talent
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Have a go – you may discover a hidden talent!
a hiding place
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He had watched the farm workers from his hiding place.
a mist obscures/hides sth (= covers something so that you cannot see it )
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Mist obscured the ships in the harbor.
be hidden from view
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The inside of the house was hidden from view by curtains.
buried/hidden/sunken treasure
hidden depths
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She’s quiet, but perhaps she has hidden depths .
hidden extras (= additional charges which you are not told about )
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Be careful, there may be hidden extras .
hide evidence
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The killer may have tried to burn the bodies in an attempt to hide the evidence.
hide your anger
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For a second he was unable to hide his anger.
hide your disappointment ( also conceal your disappointment formal )
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She turned away quickly to hide her disappointment.
hide your embarrassment
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She started laughing in an attempt to hide her embarrassment.
hide your emotions ( also conceal your emotions formal )
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Laura could not hide her emotions, or pretend to feel something she did not.
hide your feelings
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She could no longer hide her feelings.
hide/conceal sb’s identity
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She used a false name to conceal her identity.
hide/conceal your amusement
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There’s no need to hide your amusement. I’m well aware of it.
hide/conceal your excitement
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He tried to hide his excitement, but his voice was shaking.
hiding place
lie empty/open/hidden etc
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The book lay open on the table.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
disappointment
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He put Bonaventure down, stood, and broadened his smile, to hide his disappointment .
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It is impossible to hide your disappointments if they are embodied in a 770-foot-high building like Worldwide Plaza.
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Some of them were unable to hide their disappointment at being cheated out of the chance of facing the enemy.
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The 36-year-old blonde beauty was unable to hide her bitter disappointment at failing to win her libel action against the People.
emotion
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I shall have to hide my emotions better, she decided.
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Its tragic revelations are presented in a quiet, conversational style which hides deep emotions .
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It had stripped away their ability to hide emotions from each other.
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She was feeling her loss much more than she revealed; she was schooled in hiding her emotions .
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She was simply not intelligent enough to hide her emotions , to pretend to be feeling something she was not.
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Such people give more than they take; they tend to hide their emotions and repress their desires just to please others.
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Afterwards her home had become a place of coldness, of ugly, hidden , unspoken emotions .
face
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John Gummer hid his face in his hands.
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Not even the glasses and scarf could completely hide a face that had been on the covers of magazines.
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Julia, wearing a black leather jacket and faded jeans, hid her face as she scurried through Heathrow.
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Some do not bother to hide their faces .
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He hid his face as his gray sedan drove through the prison gates.
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Shy and quiet, he hid his face behind his hands and laughed.
identity
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The mysterious disguise hid the identity of the figure, but could not conceal that it only had one arm.
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To do so, he must hide his identity .
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She used the name Blondie to hide her identity .
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And they hid their identities , more so than anyone imagined.
light
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The suppressor field seemed to work perversely on Jaq, who already knew how to hide his own light .
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For far too long you've been hiding your light under a bushel.
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Fortunately, much of it was hidden because the gas lights were so dim.
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When he had strength enough he turned his face into his arms and hid from the light .
place
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No face to save, no place to hide .
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Not an easy place in which to hide anything; not an easy place to escape.
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Culturally speaking, there is no place left to hide in the modern world.
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Second, the change and upheaval of the past years has left us with no place to hide .
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There weren't many places to hide .
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We were grateful for a place to hide during the raids.
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She looked around her anxiously for some place to hide .
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He had to find another place to hide that money.
sight
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More easily now, he made his way along the roof-tops, hidden from sight by the forest of chimney stacks.
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Her body had been hidden from sight by the cauldron.
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I kept my hands clasped tightly to avoid the habitual gesture of hiding myself from sight .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be on a hiding to nothing
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But he was on a hiding to nothing really.
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Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing.
cover/hide a multitude of sins
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Patterned carpet can hide a multitude of sins.
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Curtains around a bed can also hide a multitude of sins in patient care.
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It hides a multitude of sins.
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It was called UDAG-a sincere-sounding acronym that covered a multitude of sins.
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Jay was a solid woman, dressed in dark loose comfortable clothes that hid a multitude of sins.
hidden agenda
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Although the work of the group is documented elsewhere, I feel I've gained considerably from the hidden agenda.
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Even this may still leave some hidden agendas lurking beneath the surface.
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For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them, see Games on page 71.
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Instead, you will find hidden agendas and other problems continuing to undermine your collective performance and change.
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It is only because of our fears and hidden agendas that we don't always get what we think we want.
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The London Implementation Group has no hidden agenda.
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There is frequently a hidden agenda in the use of games.
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What proved decisive, however, was part of the hidden agenda of unemployment.
hide your light under a bushel
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"That's OK," she said, trying to hide her disappointment.
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A pair of mirrored sunglasses hid her eyes from view.
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Ask me anything you want - I have nothing to hide .
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Dad's coming. Quick - hide !
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Dale hid behind some garbage cans in the alley until the men passed.
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He hides his real feelings under that big smile.
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He took off his ring to hide the fact that he was married.
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I tried to hide my anxiety from the rest of the family by pretending that everything was normal.
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I used to hide his cigarettes from him so he couldn't smoke.
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José was unable to hide his embarrassment.
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Low clouds hid the top of the mountain.
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Most of his face was hidden by a beard.
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She's coming - we'd better hide !
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She somehow hid the fact she couldn't read throughout her schooldays.
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Some cameras are so small they can be hidden in a reporter's baseball cap.
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The agency has been criticized for being too secretive and hiding information from the public.
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The bushes had become overgrown and now hid the entrance to the garden.
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The cat always hides under the bed when we have visitors.
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They put the money in a small box and hid it under the bed.
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Where can we hide these presents so the kids don't find them?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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On one tank I had, the fish panicked and hid every time I switched on the lighting.
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So my secret can be hidden behind the sleight of a venial fib after all.
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You would conspire with him to hide from me what I desire to know?
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
play
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I had played hide and seek with Sam for years.
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A goose named Alfonse and a gosling named Little Bird decide to play hide and seek.
seek
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I had played hide and seek with Sam for years.
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Their bosses, who play the same game with their bosses, join in the annual contest of hide and seek .
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A goose named Alfonse and a gosling named Little Bird decide to play hide and seek .
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SHIme ILEchl Anyone who grew up in Brooklyn knows the term that describes the opening of a game of hide and seek .
tan
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Small Star tanned a hide and carefully covered the pony each night.
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We cut the fur, tan the hides , and sew them.
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So we tanned his hide when he died, Clyde.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cover/hide a multitude of sins
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Patterned carpet can hide a multitude of sins.
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Curtains around a bed can also hide a multitude of sins in patient care.
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It hides a multitude of sins.
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It was called UDAG-a sincere-sounding acronym that covered a multitude of sins.
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Jay was a solid woman, dressed in dark loose comfortable clothes that hid a multitude of sins.
hidden agenda
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Although the work of the group is documented elsewhere, I feel I've gained considerably from the hidden agenda.
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Even this may still leave some hidden agendas lurking beneath the surface.
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For further advice on tactics for avoiding hidden agendas or surfacing them, see Games on page 71.
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Instead, you will find hidden agendas and other problems continuing to undermine your collective performance and change.
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It is only because of our fears and hidden agendas that we don't always get what we think we want.
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The London Implementation Group has no hidden agenda.
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There is frequently a hidden agenda in the use of games.
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What proved decisive, however, was part of the hidden agenda of unemployment.
hide your light under a bushel
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a buffalo hide
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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His hide is removed with head and paws attached and arranged upon a rack to look alive.
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If the meticulous and demanding rescue work succeeds, birdwatchers using the hide will be in for a treat.
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If you brush against their hair it rasps the hide right off you.
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It was the flayed hide to a bull, winging on the tide out to sea.
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The alligator, though pursued for its hide and much reduced in numbers, is not in present danger of extinction.