From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... hide a
bad motive underneath a good ...
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom.
2.
... hide a
full bottle of gin near ...
BB p.8,
Bill's Story
3.
... hide from
public distrust and contempt.
12&12 p.184,
Tradition Twelve
4.
... hide it
in the coal bin, the ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
If my wife was planning to
go out in the afternoon, I would get a large supply of liquor and smuggle it home and hide it in the coal bin, the clothes chute, over door jambs, over beams in the cellar, and in cracks in the cellar tile.
5.
... hide lust
in a dark corner of ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
But how many men and women speak love with their lips, and believe what they say, so that
they can hide lust in a dark corner of their minds?
6.
... hide out
in one of the clubs ...
BB p.176,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
I would sometimes hide out in one of the clubs of which I was a member,
and had the habit at times
of registering at a hotel under a fictitious name.
7.
... hide their
bottles if we go to ...
BB p.101,
Working With Others
People have said we must not go where liquor is served; we must not have it in our homes;
we must shun friends who drink; we must avoid moving pictures which show drinking scenes; we must not go into bars; our friends must hide their bottles if we go to their houses; we mustn't think or be reminded about alcohol at
all.
8.
... hide this
from others.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
We used our education to
blow ourselves up into prideful balloons, though we were careful to hide this from others.
9.
... hide underneath
it.
12&12 p.53,
Step Four
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