hunker down

And the thing is, we don't have to hunker down in the dark and forsake our worldly pleasures to be sustainable.

I'd deflate a bit and hunker down in anticipation of the next binge.

If it isn't powerful enough, it won't hunker down in our minds, biding its time before it boomerangs back.

And the best strategy is not to hunker down and fit in. It's to stand up and stand out.

Protesters said Monday the movement would continue to expand and said they were preparing to hunker down for cold weather.

At home, the plan is defensive: to hunker down and prepare for the economic, political and perhaps military challenges that lie in store.

"That was me, the lonely hunker-down type, " he tells us, in an opening voice-over, glossing a shot of himself as a clerk in a video store.

Roosevelt understood that when citizens lose hope and meaning, they hunker down, grow fearful of one another, and progress stagnates.

The consumers will hunker down further and pull back spending, sending the economy into a tailspin.

But Israel cannot emigrate, and it will have no choice but to hunker down and fortify its formerly peaceful border with Egypt.

Rather, they argue, the response will merely be for the hermit kingdom to "hunker down and tighten repression" .

When panic sets it, just drain the grease tanks of a few abandoned fast food joints, hunker down and make your fuel.

But a decade later, we've shown that America doesn't hunker down and hide behind walls of mistrust.

In winter, perhaps you'll be looking for a fellow movie buff to hunker down with, bucket of popcorn in hand.

All the economy's problems are forcing people and businesses to hunker down, crimping spending and hiring, a vicious cycle.

In building the ranch in Eldorado, FLDS leaders planned to hunker down and escape notice.

So hunker down and get prepared and listen to the best brains telling it like it is.

Those with well- financed websites have spent enormous amounts on digital bunkers, while others simply hunker down.

It's when many, especially those who adhere to traditional nomadic rhythms of life, hunker down until spring.

The hikers had to hunker down and wait out the storm.

Your instinct is to hunker down and figure out which is the "right" answer.

The shy, the introverted and the socially inept can all hunker down before a glowing computer and whisper to the world.

So, rather than make up new ones, just hunker down and get to work.

Lay low, hunker down. . . hibernate, like.

Don't hunker down for the apocalypse without it .

You can hunker down and take it.

He felt his backache and didn't hunker down.

After that, it's time to hunker down.