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" or "what do you have to hide?

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Quick take

the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hide gathered in one view.

noun

the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

noun

body covering of a living animal

verb

prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hide.

noun

the dressed skin of an animal (especially a large animal)

noun

body covering of a living animal

verb

prevent from being seen or discovered; "Muslim women hide their faces"; "hide the money"

verb

be or go into hiding; keep out of sight, as for protection and safety; "Probably his horse would be close to where he was hiding"; "She is hiding out in a cabin in Montana"

verb

cover as if with a shroud; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"

verb

make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; "a hidden message"; "a veiled threat"

Example sentences

" or "what do you have to hide?

You can hide in your office and "free your mind" instead.

But the Higgs is quickly running out of places to hide.

And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat?

He's a nut because of his privacy advocation; he must have something to hide.

Those pushing "if you have nothing to hide..." have suspect & ulterior motives.

Luckily for me, I was quick enough to react and hide away my most important item, my iPhone 4.

I'm getting seriously irritated at the "I have nothing to hide" crowd.

The "if you have nothing to hide..." line is predicated on the viewer having final say about whether something is right/wrong, thus subordinating the subject to the viewer.

You should absolutely never talk to the authorities even if you think you have nothing to hide and especially when they're actively trying to pin something on you.

In essence, the claim is: "The site tricked me. I went to buy a single pair of shoes, and in doing so, they actually started taxing my credit card every month, and no one warned me."Folks are right to be skeptical -- a lot of businesses have done this, tried to hide the fact there would be future charges.

In a lot of anti-Semitic literature, Jews were portrayed as ultra-sexual in the same "hide your daughters" way that can happen with African Americans today.

So impassioned arguments about "security through obscurity" and "the futility of trying to hide protocols" aren't adding much to the discussion.

They allow us to detect the underlying commonalities that define particular systems of teaching, commonalities that otherwise hide in the background.

The President clarifies that--despite much of what campaign rhetoric made people believe he thought--his concern is not whether we should be enacting these intelligence gathering programs that target everyone and attempt to hide behind policy rules, not laws.

According to the article:"...The customer considers that if I don't want to record the video, it's because I have something to hide and want to lie about the real time spent on his project".Dealing with a client that tells you from the outset that they believe you are going to lie to them isn't merely an annoyance.