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play hide and seek



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Idioms and Phrases

Evade or seem to evade someone. For example, Bill is hard to pin down—he's always playing hide and seek . This expression alludes to the children's game in which one player tries to find others who are hiding. It has been used figuratively since the mid-1600s.
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But Sandringham was also a place where Charles and his sister could play hide and seek or tag with their mother and father, with the adults ‘’casting off all inhibition and chasing one another, as well as the prince and princess, around the saloon, along the corridors, into the drawing room, up the stairs and along the landing, tripping up guests, shrieking ad squealing all the while,” biographer Jonathan Dimbleby, wrote in his 1994 book “The Prince of Wales.’

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In the maze of trails at Carkeek Park, Hendrickson split the class up into small groups and had us use map and compass to play hide and seek with the three instructors.

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What is the deal with a boy who wants Harper to play Hide and Seek, and calls her "a stupid b***h" when she declines?

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The Colombian mercenaries who were arrested, she said, did not come to Haiti to “play hide and seek,” and she wants to know who paid for it all.

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"So maybe the German government should not play hide and seek with us."

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