Lie doggo

I used to send out spies, and act on their information. As soon as a man came in and told me of a gang in hiding, I'd take thirty men with some grub, and go out and look for them, while the other subaltern lay doggo in camp.

Do you think he's done something that we don't know about, and is lying doggo on account of the police?

[I]f we lay doggo where we was, Jerry might miss us, though he didn't seem to be missin' much that evenin'. […] Lyin' doggo was our best chance.

The two old foxes had got away again. They had tricked and turned and doubled on their tracks and lain doggo at the right time all their lives, which their white hairs showed had not been brief; and they had done it this time too.

"I will lie doggo for a bit," wrote the seventh earl of Lucan [John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan] to a family friend shortly after he had murdered his children's nanny, mistaking her, in the dark, for his wife. That was ten years ago, and the earl—dead or alive—has lain doggo ever since.

We appreciate your need to lie doggo for a bit.