单词 | to button lip |
释义 | > as lemmasto button (a person's) lip (also mouth) P1. slang or colloquial. to button (a person's) lip (also mouth), also (esp. in early use) to button up (a person's) lip (also mouth), and variants: to silence (a person). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > deprive of voice [verb (transitive)] > put to silence to put silence toc1384 to stop (one's own or another's) mouthc1384 to put (a person or thing) to silencea1464 mumc1475 stillc1540 to button up (a person's) lip (also mouth)1601 obacerate1656 bouche1721 to shut up1814 to pipe down1926 to button (a person's) lip (also mouth)1968 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Dialogicall Disc. Spirits & Diuels To Rdr. sig. a2v We haue..buttoned vp their lips, or euer they begin to speake. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts 526 How easily can God button up the mouths of our busiest adversaries. 1888 Belleville (Kansas) Telescope 27 Dec. To button up his small friend's back was an easy matter, but to button up his mouth..was quite futile. 1968 Brandon (Manitoba) Sun 8 Aug. 8/4 He will give his sister a reply that will button her lip for all time. 2007 M. Phillips Gods behaving Badly (2008) xvii. 102 ‘Don't act the idiot,’ said Apollo, ‘or I'll button your lip. Permanently.’ < as lemmas |
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