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lie doggo (third-person singular simple present lies doggo, present participle lying doggo, simple past lay doggo, past participle lain doggo)
- (slang) To lie still and quiet in order to avoid detection.
1924, Rudyard Kipling, The Janeites:... if we lay doggo where we was, Jerry might miss us ...
1946, Rebecca West, “Greenhouse with Cyclamens I,”, in A Train of Powder,, pages 56–7:They had tricked and turned and doubled on their tracks and lain doggo at the right time all their lives, which their white hairs showed had not been brief; and they had done it this time too.
1984 December 17, Craig Brown, “Lucan Everywhere”, in New York, volume 17, number 50, →ISSN, page 28:"I will lie doggo for a bit," wrote the seventh earl of Lucan to a family friend shortly after he had murdered his children's nanny, mistaking her, in the dark, for his wife. That was ten years ago, and the earl — dead or alive — has lain doggo ever since.
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