"live under a rock" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-live under a rock.wav [US] Forms: lives under a rock [present, singular, third-person], living under a rock [participle, present], lived under a rock [participle, past], lived under a rock [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} live under a rock (third-person singular simple present lives under a rock, present participle living under a rock, simple past and past participle lived under a rock)
  1. (figurative) To be isolated from knowledge of current events. Tags: figuratively Translations (to be isolated from knowledge of current events): 坐井觀天 (Chinese Mandarin), 坐井观天 (zuòjǐngguāntiān) (Chinese Mandarin), leve under en sten (Danish), kasvaa tynnyrissä (Finnish), vivre dans une grotte (French), hinterm Mond leben (German), barlangban él (Hungarian), leve under en stein (Norwegian Bokmål), leve under en stein (Norwegian Nynorsk), leva under en stein (Norwegian Nynorsk), nie być na bieżąco (Polish), viver debaixo de uma pedra (Portuguese), leva under en sten (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-live_under_a_rock-en-verb-LLsgYOua Disambiguation of 'to be isolated from knowledge of current events': 88 12
  2. (figurative) Live in isolation. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-live_under_a_rock-en-verb-boRd5MJq Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 38 62

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to be isolated from knowledge of current events",
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      "sense": "to be isolated from knowledge of current events"
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      "sense": "to be isolated from knowledge of current events",
      "word": "leve under en stein"
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      "sense": "to be isolated from knowledge of current events",
      "word": "nie być na bieżąco"
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      "sense": "to be isolated from knowledge of current events",
      "word": "viver debaixo de uma pedra"
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