Work & careers
keep your head down
work quietly without attention
If you keep your head down, you work quietly and avoid attracting attention or getting distracted.
Hear it in real life
Are you joining us for coffee?
Not today; I need to keep my head down and study.
I need to keep my head down and finish this presentation before lunch.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I need to keep down my head and finish this report.
Say: I need to keep my head down and finish this report.
In the idiom, “your head” comes before “down”; “keep down your head” does not express quietly concentrating.
Build it
How it fits in a sentence.
keep your head down and do something; keep my head down
Your turn: say it out loud
I need to keep my head down and finish this presentation before lunch.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
keep your head down
work quietly without attention
“I need to keep my head down and finish this presentation before lunch.”
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