lie doggoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

lie doggo (三人称単数 現在形 lies doggo, 現在分詞 lying doggo, 過去形 lay doggo, 過去分詞 lain doggo)

1. (slang) To lie still and quiet in order to avoid detection.
   • 1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers by arrangement with George H. Doran Company, OCLC 365836:

     "Do you think he's done something that we don't know about, and is lying doggo on account of the police?"

   • 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, pp. 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, Brown, Craig, “Lucan Everywhere”, in New York, volume 17, number 50, ISSN 0028-7369, 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.

   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 710:

     We appreciate your need to lie doggo for a bit.

同意語

• lie low