to live under a rock
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- idiom
- Informal
:
vivir en una cueva
- Has he been living under a rock for the last 100 years or so?
Meanwhile, in case you've been living under a rock, there was an eclipse on Monday.
- Meanwhile, in case you've been living under a rock, there was an eclipse on Monday.
- Come on, you've been living under a rock.
- So Joe, you know, was like living under a rock, like did was not sprouting.
Examples
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In case you've been living under a rock for the past few months, Nintendo will be releasing their next-gen console this weekend.
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Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that the Detroit Tigers are going to the World Series.
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For those of you who have been living under a rock...
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God, have you been living under a rock?
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If not, then you have been living under a rock.
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So as long as you are not living under a rock, you probably heard about the Royal Wedding this week.
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You must be living under a rock not to know how powerful and influential he is.
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You'd have to be living under a rock to not be aware that technology has changed our lives in every possible area.
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Meanwhile, in case you've been living under a rock, there was an eclipse on Monday.
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If you didn't hear about the massive concert last weekend, you must have been living under a rock.
Antonyms
How Aware
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- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The literal parts ('live' + 'under' + 'rock') evoke physical isolation, which can metaphorically imply being cut off from news or common knowledge; the mapping from isolation to ignorance is plausible but requires metaphorical inference. A B1 learner who knows the words could probably guess the general idea (someone out of touch) but might not infer the precise sense 'unaware of current events' without prior exposure, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Live under a rock comes from the image of someone actually living under a rock, hidden and cut off from news and other people. So the phrase means 'to be unaware of current events' or 'out of touch'.