"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 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 (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-grZ33~DL Disambiguation of 'to be isolated from knowledge of current events': 95 5
  2. (figurative) To live in isolation. Tags: figuratively
    Sense id: en-live_under_a_rock-en-verb-d4SgFMd7 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Danish translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 14 86 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 11 89 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 6 94 Disambiguation of Terms with Danish translations: 11 89 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 18 82 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 16 84 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 40 60 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 29 71 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 20 80 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations: 5 95 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 21 79 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 17 83 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 17 83

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "to be isolated from knowledge of current events",
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