"live under a rock" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-live under a rock.wav 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 live in isolation: to live hermetically (especially, hermitically); thus, to be unaware of or be oblivious to common knowledge; to be isolated from knowledge of current events. Tags: figuratively Translations (to be isolated from knowledge of current events): 坐井觀天 /坐井观天 (zuòjǐngguāntiān) (Chinese Mandarin), leve under en sten (Danish), kasvaa tynnyrissä (Finnish), vivre dans une grotte (French), vivre dans un nuage (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)

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        "(figurative) To live in isolation: to live hermetically (especially, hermitically); thus, to be unaware of or be oblivious to common knowledge; 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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      "word": "leve under en stein"
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