| 词汇 | lie low |
| 词源 | lie low. In its slang sense, this warning is said to be first pub- lished in an 1888 collection of proverbial sayings of Uncle Re- mus. It means to hide one’s identity, hide out, to escape notice. The first Uncle Remus was Joel Chandler Harris, who related the wise words, including the famous tar baby tales and stories of the old former slave, which are the best of American black folktales. |
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