under the hatches
under the hatches
below deck in a ship
concealed from public knowledge
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batten down the hatches
prepare for a difficulty or crisis
Batten down the hatches was originally a nautical term meaning make a ship's hatches secure with gratings and tarpaulins in expectation of stormy weather.
1998 - Oldie - They endured the hard pounding of the Seventies, when Labour battened down the hatches, and soldiered through the follies of the early Eighties.
hatches matches and despatches
the births, marriages and deaths columns in a newspaper, humorous, dated
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