staying at home

Verb

stay at home (third-person singular simple present stays at home, present participle staying at home, simple past and past participle stayed at home)

1. Not to vote in an election; not to turn out; not to make it to the polls
   • Democrats were concerned that Mitt Romney might win the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election because millennials would stay at home on Election Day.
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see stay, at, home.