单词 | have one's peace |
释义 | > as lemmasto 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. ΘΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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