live under a rock

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Verb

live under a rock (third-person singular simple present lives under a rock, present participle living under a rock, simple past and past participle lived under a rock)

1. (figurative) To live in isolation: to live hermetically (especially, hermitically); thus, to be unaware of or be oblivious to common knowledge; to be isolated from knowledge of current events.

   Of course I know about Looney Tunes, SpongeBob SquarePants, and The Simpsons. I do not live under a rock.

   Eventually their misanthropy got so bad that they built a ferroconcrete underground home in the farthest boondocks of North Dakota so that they could literally live under a rock.

Translations

to be isolated from knowledge of current events

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 坐井觀天 / 坐井观天 (zh) (zuòjǐngguāntiān)

• Danish: leve under en sten
• Finnish: kasvaa tynnyrissä
• French: vivre dans une grotte (fr), vivre dans un nuage (fr)
• German: hinterm Mond leben
• Hungarian: barlangban él, a világtól elzárva​/​elzártan​/​elvonultan​/​elvonulva​/​elszigetelve​/​elszigetelten​/​távol él
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• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: leve under en stein

  Nynorsk: leve under en stein, leva under en stein

• Polish: nie być na bieżąco
• Portuguese: viver debaixo de uma pedra
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• Swedish: leva under en sten
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