make yourself scarce

make yourself scarce
make yourself scarce phrase
to stay away from a particular place in order to avoid a difficult or embarrassing situation

Dad’s pretty mad – you’d better make yourself scarce.

Thesaurus: absent, lost and unavailablesynonym
Main entry: scarce

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make yourself scarce
informal : to leave so that you will not be seen in a certain place

You'd better make yourself scarce before my parents get home.

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Main Entry:scarce

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ˌmake yourself ˈscarce idiom
(informal) to leave somewhere and stay away for a time in order to avoid an unpleasant situation

I could see he was annoyed so I made myself scarce.

Main entry:scarceidiom

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