hedge someone or something in

hedge someone or something in
hedge someone or something in
to enclose someone or something in a hedge. (See also hedge someone in.) •

Their overgrown yard has almost hedged us in.

Their bushes hedged in our yard.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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