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hiding noun [ ˈhʌɪdɪŋ ]

• a physical beating.
• "they caught him and gave him a hiding"
Similar: beating, battering, thrashing, thumping, pounding, pummelling, drubbing, slapping, smacking, spanking, hammering, cuffing, thwacking, mauling, pelting, flogging, flaying, whipping, caning, lashing, cudgelling, clubbing, birching, licking, belting, bashing, pasting, lathering, larruping, walloping, whacking, clobbering, tanning, biffing, bopping, horsewhipping, whaling,
Origin: early 19th century: from hide2 + -ing1.

hiding noun

• the action of concealing someone or something.
Origin: Middle English: from hide1 + -ing1.

hide verb

• put or keep out of sight.
• "he hid the money in the house"
Similar: conceal, secrete, put in a hiding place, put out of sight, camouflage, lock up, bury, store away, stow away, cache, stash,
Opposite: flaunt, expose,
Origin: Old English hȳdan, of West Germanic origin.

be on a hiding to nothing

• be unlikely to succeed, or be unlikely to gain much advantage if one does.
"politically we are on a hiding to nothing in the long run"



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