To stop speaking or making noise.
Sinònims
Examples for "hold one's tongue"
Examples for "hold one's tongue"
1Under many circumstances it is not difficult to hold one's tongue.
2It is a very good thing to be able to hold one's tongue!
3In times like these, one must hold one's tongue.
4If one could always hold one's tongue as to what one sees, one would be the better for it.
5When one has talked to one's self for a great many years it is hard to hold one's tongue in public.
1Go in the spare room, where it is cool; we'll keep quiet.
2You need to be able to keep quiet when hunting and fishing.
3The story is that my father paid her to keep quiet, right?
4The longer they keep quiet and do nothing, the better for us.
5So they keep quiet and hope someone else will take the risk.
1Paris and the provinces broke out; the Parliament did not keep silent.
2Although the Manchester police cleared Drake, she demanded money to keep silent.
3Maybe Gervaise made her keep silent, and the words just built up.
4Speak up clearly when you are spoken to, and keep silent otherwise.
5Mark was right at his back, doing his best to keep silent.
1Roth later allowed people to return after admonishing them to remain silent.
2All 33 members had invoked their right to remain silent, he added.
3Republican candidates did not exactly remain silent following the San Bernardino shooting.
4The law gives me the right to remain silent in any event.
5Yet he could tell that they were struggling to remain silent, too.
1It is a case of be silent or stand up, he said.
2The wood-pigeon in the fir trees could not be silent any longer.
3In the presence of tears I can neither speak nor be silent.
4He will be silent; he has the power to make her so.
5I wonder whether you can be silent in the sight of night-fishing.
6Reginald will learn to be silent, just as he learned to talk.
7The Asiatic princes-But the ruler of the state must be silent.
8He signed to Dermot to be silent and said in solemn tones:
9Really nothing; and I hoped he would allow me to be silent.
10Many know well how to speak; few know when to be silent.
11She would lose herself in thought at times, and she'd be silent.
12Far more have sacrificed too much more for me to be silent.
13Now please be silent unless you have a cogent point to make.
14Hear me for my cause; and be silent, that you may hear.
15Harvey motioned the others to be silent, and tiptoed across the floor.
16He knew it was one of the things to be silent about.