shut yourself away
— phrasal verb with shut uk/ʃʌt/us/ʃʌt/verb [ I or T ] present participle shutting, past tense and past participle shut
to go into a place that you are unwilling to leave and where you do not want to be interrupted by other people:
Andy shuts himself away in his studio for hours on end when he's recording a song.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Alone
- abandon
- apart
- be in a minority of one idiom
- castaway
- deserted
- herself
- himself
- like a shag on a rock idiom
- lone wolf
- lonely
- loner
- lonesome
- shag
- shut
- sole
- solely
- solitude
- solo
- stag
- themselves
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