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heads down

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heads down - [Sun] Concentrating, usually so heavily and for so long that everything outside the focus area is missed. See also hack mode and larval stage, although this mode is hardly confined to fledgling hackers.
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It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear
Alice's Adventures In Wonderland by Carroll, Lewis View in context
And the little doves stooped their heads down and set to work, pick, pick, pick; and then the others began to pick, pick, pick: and among them all they soon picked out all the good grain, and put it into a dish but left the ashes.
Fairy Tales by Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm View in context
"Then," replied Michel Ardan, ready to suit the action to the word, "let us put our heads down and our feet in the air, like the clowns in the grand circus.
Round The Moon by Verne, Jules View in context
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