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what does "hidey-holes"mean?
Downstairs she took a couple of shots with a little digital camera. “A lot of determination here,” she commented. “I read up a little on this dowry, the ship and so on, but just to get a general overview. I’d like to have one of my people do some more in-depth research on it, if that’s okay with you.”
“It’s fine. I’ve been doing some of my own. If there was anything, we’d have found it a long time ago. He’s wasting his time.”
“Probably. But it’s a big house. Lots of hidey-holes, I imagine.”
“Most of it was built years after the Calypso. Whiskey built it, generation by generation, along with the distilleries, the warehouses, the offices.”
Jul 15, 2015 1:38 PM
Answers · 2
Small places to hide something or oneself.
July 15, 2015
Hidey-holes is a combination of two words. Hide and holes. It refers to places to hide. Also when it says holes, it does not literally mean that it is a hole. It could be a space under the bed or even a cupboard.
July 15, 2015
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