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to hide the sausage

to hide the sausage

9.9
To hide something as a joke that often means sex
  • idiom
  • Offensive
translation icon : echar un polvo (coloquial, vulgar)
  • The comedian made everyone laugh with a joke about hiding the sausage at the family barbecue.

Examples

  • They couldn't stop giggling after someone hinted at hiding the sausage in the kitchen.

  • She tried to hide the sausage during the party.

  • In some movies, the phrase hide the sausage is used as a playful euphemism.

  • Don't hide the sausage from me!

  • The actor used the phrase hide the sausage during his comedy routine to get some laughs from the audience.

  • At the picnic, the group laughed when someone mentioned hiding the sausage as part of their playful banter.

  • He joked about hiding the sausage in a very suggestive way, making everyone burst into laughter.

Synonyms

to hide
vsto hide the sausage
∞ 1.0

To keep something so others cannot see or understand it

is a humorous slang phrase often used as a sexual euphemism
to cover up
vsto hide the sausage
314 3.7

To hide something so people cannot see or find out about it

is a humorous slang phrase often used as a sexual euphemism
to conceal
vsto hide the sausage
282 3.7

To hide something so others cannot see or find it

is a humorous slang phrase often used as a sexual euphemism

Antonyms

to show
∞ 1.0

To let others see or notice something

to expose
146 2.8

Make something visible by removing a cover or letting light reach it

How Direct

to have intercourse
  • NSFW
23 8.1
to have sex
  • NSFW
∞ 3.0
to sleep with
  • NSFW
652 7.4
to hide the sausage
  • Offensive
9.9
to make love
  • NSFW
296 5.3

Surface Forms

hide the sausage infinitive
hiding the sausage present participle
hides the sausage third person singular
hid the sausage past
hid the sausage past participle

Morphology

hide + the + sausage

Although the literal sense 'to hide a sausage' is compositionally predictable from 'hide' + 'sausage', the common pragmatic/euphemistic meaning (sexual innuendo or covertly 'to conceal something' as a slangy euphemism) is idiomatic and culturally driven. A B1 learner who knows the words would likely read it literally and would not reliably infer the sexual or euphemistic sense, so the MWE's intended meaning is not transparently derivable from its parts.

Etymology

Hide the sausage comes from a joking image: someone secretly hiding a sausage (a piece of meat) as if it were a private part. Because the sausage can stand for a male private part, people use the phrase as a playful way to say 'to have sex' or more gently 'to hide something private'.