单词 | to keep one's mouth shut |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep one's mouth shut d. †to hold one's mouth: to remain silent; to restrain one's speech (obsolete). to shut (also close) one's mouth: to refrain from speaking. to keep one's mouth shut: to remain silent, to refrain from inopportune or indiscreet speech. †to make up one's mouth: to finish speaking (obsolete). to stop a person's mouth: to keep a person from talking. Cf. to open one's mouth at open v. 3a, to run one's mouth at run v. Phrases 2z, to shoot off one's mouth, to shoot one's mouth off at shoot v. 23g. 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 > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > make complete [verb (transitive)] > complete, fill up, or make up to make up one's mouthc1175 fulfila1225 through-fill?c1225 upspeed1338 supplya1398 araisea1440 to make outa1562 accomplish1577 complement1643 implement1843 the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)] > stop speaking to make up one's mouthc1175 to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175 blina1300 dumba1300 leavea1375 to put a sock in ita1529 hush1548 silence1551 stay1551 stow1567 stop1579 to save one's breath (also wind)1605 tace1697 stubble it!1699 shut your trap!1796 to keep a calm (or quiet) sough1808 stubble your whids!1830 to shut up1840 to dry up1853 pawl1867 subside1872 to pipe down1876 to shut (one's) head, face1876 shurrup1893 to shut off1896 clam1916 dry1934 shtum1958 to oyster up1973 the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > refrain from uttering [verb (transitive)] > silence or prevent from speaking to stop a person's mouthc1175 stilla1225 to keep ina1420 stifle1496 to knit up1530 to muzzle (up) the mouth1531 choke1533 muzzle?1542 to tie a person's tongue1544 tongue-tiea1555 silence1592 untongue1598 to reduce (a person or thing) to silence1605 to bite in1608 gaga1616 to swear downa1616 to laugh down1616 stifle1621 to cry down1623 unworda1627 clamour1646 splint1648 to take down1656 snap1677 stick1708 shut1809 to shut up1814 to cough down1823 to scrape down1855 to howl down1872 extinguish1878 hold1901 shout1924 to pipe down1926 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)] > finish meal with a treat to make up one's mouthc1175 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 c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 177 Healde we ure muð wið unnytte spece. c1300 St. Thomas Becket (Laud) 2035 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 165 (MED) Beo stille..hold þinne mouthþ. c1330 in T. Wright Polit. Songs Eng. (1839) 327 (MED) He may wid a litel silver stoppen his mouth. a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 1275 (MED) Sche Comandeth me my mowth to close. a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 177 (MED) Be styl, clerk, & hold thi mowth. c1535 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1901) I. 11 And how Christ stoppit the mowthis of the Saduceis. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie (new ed.) 3rd Serm. sig. Eviij (margin) A preacher offyce is to be a mouth stopper. But not to haue hys one mouthe stopped wyth a benefice or byshoprike. 1606 T. Dekker Seuen Deadly Sinnes London i. sig. B1v The poore Orator hauing made vp his mouth, Bankruptisme gaue him very good words. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 150 Stop your mouth dame, or with this paper shall I stople it. View more context for this quotation 1645 in A. L. Murray Lag Charters (1958) 57 The takeing of my lord of Quiensberrie hes stoped all yowr freends mowths. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 214 We stopt his Mouth with his Share of 200 000 Pieces of Eight. 1782 T. Grenville Let. 4 June in Duke of Buckingham Mem. Court & Cabinets George III (1853) I. 36 You will observe though..that this intended appointment has effectually stopped Franklin's mouth to me. 1784 C. Gadsden Writings (1966) 235 Continue here..until you have made up your mouth, (as the phrase is). 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. x. 144 Enough... Go, and keep the mouth shut. When Magua speaks, it will be the time to answer. 1847 F. Marryat Children of New Forest I. xiii. 241 I stopped his mouth by telling him that [etc.]. 1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. lxix. 113 He had told nobody anything, he had kept his mouth shut. 1895 R. Pocock Rules of Game 1 (Farmer) ‘Shut your mouth’, he said, ‘or I'll knife you!’ 1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ ii. 24 Keep your mouth shut when your elders speak, you impudent young heathen. 1933 A. G. Macdonell England, their England vi. 82 You can keep your mouth shut. Good man. 1938 G. Greene Brighton Rock i. i. 8 ‘Christ,’ the boy said, ‘won't anybody stop that buer's mouth?’ 1989 B. Head Tales Tenderness & Power (1990) 17 I just bored myself to death and I assumed that I would bore others too so I shut my mouth pretty quick about what I had written. 1991 R. R. McCammon Boy's Life i. i. 17 Now you do what I tell you and keep your smart mouth shut! < as lemmas |
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