Speakur

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keep one's head below the parapet

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.73 in modern English

Syllables
keep- one's -head- -be-low the -para-pet
IPA
49
Scrabble Score
27
Letters
8
Syllables
14
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To avoid creating any controversy, and thus avoid being a target for anybody's criticism.

Inflected Forms

keeps one's head below the parapet (present, singular) keeping one's head below the parapet (participle, present) kept one's head below the parapet (participle, past) kept one's head below the parapet (past)

Antonyms

put one's head above the parapet raise one's head above the parapet

Questions

What does keep one's head below the parapet mean?
To avoid creating any controversy, and thus avoid being a target for anybody's criticism.

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