| 单词 | to keep a still tongue in one's head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto keep a still tongue in one's head b. Habitually silent, taciturn. Phrase, to keep a still tongue in one's head. 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 mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > [adjective] unspeakinga1382 speechless1390 mutec1400 dumb1406 silenta1425 peaceablec1425 secretc1440 of few wordsa1500 tongue-tied1529 mum1532 closec1540 strait-laced1546 tongue-dumb1556 incommunicable1568 sparing1568 inconversable1577 retentive1599 wordless1604 mumbudget1622 uncommunicable1628 monastica1631 word-bound1644 on (also upon) the reserve1655 strait-mouthed1664 oyster-like1665 incommunicative1670 mumchance1681 speechless1726 taciturnous1727 tongue-tacked1727 monosyllabic1735 silentish1737 untalkative1739 silentious1749 buttoned-up1767 taciturn1771 close as wax1772 untittletattling1779 reticent1825 voiceless1827 say-nothing1838 unremonstrant1841 still1855 unvocal1858 inexpansive186. short-tongued1864 non-communicating1865 tight-lipped1876 unworded1886 chup1896 tongue-bound1906 shut-mouthed1936 zip-lipped1943 shtum1958 1729 G. Adams tr. Sophocles Antigone iv. i, in tr. Sophocles Trag. II. 61 Lead me home, that he may..know how to keep a stiller Tongue, and ever be of a better Mind than now he is. 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! xv He was a very still man, much as a mass~priest might be. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede II. iii. xxiii. 164 I'll tell you what I know, because I believe you can keep a still tongue in your head if you like. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Grandmother iv, in Enoch Arden, etc. 116 Strong of his hands, and strong on his legs, but still of his tongue! 1869 W. C. Hazlitt Eng. Prov. & Phr. 35 A still tongue makes a wise head. 1870 E. Peacock Ralf Skirlaugh I. 112 I'm a strange still chap mysen. 1890 ‘W. A. Wallace’ Only a Sister 328 He was a rare man John, a rare still 'un. < as lemmas |
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