Daily life
hunker down
stay somewhere safe during difficulty
To stay in a safe place while waiting for a difficult or dangerous situation to finish.
Hear it in real life
Are you still going out tonight?
No, we're going to hunker down and watch a film.
We decided to hunker down at home until the roads were safe.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: We had to hunker up at the airport.
Say: We had to hunker down at the airport.
The fixed phrase is "hunker down," not "hunker up."
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
hunker down somewhere; hunker down with someone
Your turn: say it out loud
We decided to hunker down at home until the roads were safe.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
hunker down
stay somewhere safe during difficulty
“We decided to hunker down at home until the roads were safe.”
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