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单词 have one's peace
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to have one's peace
Earliest in †to have one's peace: to be silent (obsolete). See also Phrases 1.extracted from peacen.
to hold (also †have, keep) one's peace
P1. to hold (also †have, keep) one's peace: to remain quiet or silent; to keep silence; to refrain from comment or criticism.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]
to hold one's tonguec897
to keep one's tonguec897
to be (hold oneself) stilla1000
to say littleOE
to hold one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to keep (one's) silence?c1225
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
stillc1330
peacec1395
mum1440
to say neither buff nor baff1481
to keep (also play) mum1532
to charm the tonguec1540
to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546
hush1548
to play (at) mumbudgeta1564
not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590
to keep a still tongue in one's head1729
to sing small1738
to sew up1785
let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814
to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824
to choke back1844
mumchance1854
to keep one's trap shut1899
to choke up1907
to belt up1949
to keep (or stay) shtum1958
shtum1958
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > lose the voice [verb (intransitive)] > not utter
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
peacec1395
muffa1500
to put a sock in ita1529
whista1547
to say not muff1652
to hold one's whisht1786
to shut (one's) pan1799
to shut up1840
to hold one's whistc1874
to shut (one's) head, face1876
to wrap up1943
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 213 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 75 Haue þi pais [c1330 Auch. be stille], þou foule þing.
a1350 in G. L. Brook Harley Lyrics (1968) 43 (MED) Holdeþ nou or pees.
a1382 Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) vi. 4 I holde my pees of gramaryens & rethorykez, philosophers, geometrers, [etc.].
1483 ( tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage of Soul (Caxton) (1859) ii. lxv. 59 I..held my pees, and wold no more seye.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vii. 157 He had grete luste to speke, for yf he had keped his peas [etc.].
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Matrimonie f. xiii*v Let him now speake, or els hereafter foreuer hold his peace.
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxix. 542 At this text R. Eliezer was blankt and held his peace.
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron I. v. viii. f. 201 So soone as Madam Lauretta held her peace, Madam Philomena (by the Queenes command) began, and saide.
1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal iii. 27 Nay, pr'ythee hold thy peace.
1717 M. Prior Alma iii. 186 Richard, keep thy head, And hold thy peace.
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Stow you, be silent, or hold your peace.
1818 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 33 346 If we hold our tongues upon this subject, let us, for decency's sake, keep our peace as to the dependence of Canning.
1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. III. xxvi. 16 I held my peace on this new..craze.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xv. 265 But since I can't, an' nobody can, I'd better hold my peace, an' try an' live my own life.
1970 P. Berton National Dream vii. i. 264 The Tory chieftain had kept his peace while the Liberal press continued to announce his imminent retirement.
2003 Africa News (Nexis) 15 Oct. The union ought to hold its peace about the payment period now. For it signed the pact.
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