- go into a huddle
- go into a huddle1. Lit. [for team members] to get into a small circle and plan what they are going to do next. •
They went into a huddle to plan their strategy.
•The players will go into a huddle and decide what to do.
2. Fig. [for people] to group together to talk and decide what to do. •We went into a huddle to plan our sales strategy.
•Toplevel management needs to go into a huddle and come up with a good plan.
* * *{v. phr.} 1. To gather close together as a team in a football game, usually to find out your team's next play. * /The football team which has the ball goes into a huddle before every play to get orders on what play they will use./ 2. {informal} To talk together privately about something; discuss something where others cannot hear. * /The man went into a huddle with his lawyers before answering the question./ * /The doctors went into a huddle and decided to operate./
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.