keep (yourself) to yourself
— phrasal verb with keep uk/kiːp/us/kiːp/verb kept, kept
to not talk to other people very much:
He's a very private person - he keeps (himself) to himself.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Falling silent and not speaking
- bite
- clam
- gob
- have nothing to say for yourself idiom
- hear
- hold
- hold your tongue idiom
- incommunicado
- keep your mouth shut idiom
- let sth rest idiom
- lost
- pipe down
- radio silence
- rest
- save your breath idiom
- silence
- silence is golden idiom
- speak
- tight-lipped
- unsaid
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