A place for hiding something or oneself in, especially as a retreat from other people.
‘favourite hidey-holes for studying included the main library and the underground classrooms’
‘Across the nation, trees are being commandeered for a new trend in high-rise living and these are not the pokey hidey-holes made from a few stray planks that most people remember from their youth.’
‘Constructed from a warren of cellars, the bar is full of little hidey-holes where you can lounge on leather banquettes and happily while away the evening over a bottle or two.’
‘The film is based on a memoir but contains Polanski's recollections of what it was like to go from a comfortable home to a high-walled ghetto to a series of hidey-holes.’
‘Slowly but surely, academics crawled out from the sanctity of their ivory tower hidey-holes to declare it an affront to modern womanhood.’
‘I have to come out of the hidey-hole I live in and have a social life (I last went out on my own more than a year ago, couldn't find anything I felt like doing, and ended up back home watching TV with the dogs).’
‘But while a hidey-hole for two, miles from the nearest Santa, might be your idea of festive bliss, it does mean you have to do all the cooking and washing-up.’
‘I knew it couldn't last but it was custom-made for me, a little hidey-hole away from all the renovations and construction work that was going on inside and around the house.’
‘If their right to have a cigarette outside the building is withdrawn, there is a danger they will find a hidey-hole somewhere, thus creating a fire hazard.’
‘She looked at me, slightly alarmed, decided I wasn't kidding, and zoomed off to her hidey-hole under the bed in the smallest bedroom.’
‘So I waited until she'd left before climbing out of my hidy-hole.’
‘Peddlers, merchants and proprietors chattered and quarreled in a multiplicity of languages; sparrows chirped and rooks called almost as loudly from their hidey-holes among the rooftops overhead.’
‘She had many hidey-holes throughout the city, but the museum was her favorite.’
‘Oh. Well, they also liked to hide stuff in fireplaces or in a secret hidey-hole inside the chimney.’
‘It took careful and patient observation to work out exactly where they were nesting as they seemed to wait until you looked away before vanishing into their hidey-hole.’
‘She lets people use this cellar as a hidey-hole if someone's after them.’
‘Sated, the six-millimetre bug crawls back to its hidey-hole in your mattress or skirting board, where it spends up to two weeks digesting its meal.’
‘I hurried and went over to my closet, and crawled inside, into the little hidey-hole that only Beth and I knew about.’
‘Satisfied, Ivan returned the ISCN transceiver to its hidey-hole and replaced the floor panel.’
‘Hard to navigate a car down the lanes to this rural hidey-hole near the Helford River - but worth it.’
‘It took me a full five minutes to retrieve her from a succession of hidey-holes but I succeeded, brought her back into the dining room, plonked her on the table and started in on the task of separating one outsize cat from a half kitten's worth of loose hair.’
hideaway, hideout, retreat, refuge, den, shelter, sanctuary, bolthole, foxhole, lair, safe house, asylum, sanctum, hermitage, oasis, haven, harbour, place of safety
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