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Meanings of clam up in English
Synonyms
Examples for "close up"
Examples for "close up"
1
I shall be very interested to see how you work, close up.
2
It'd been a long time since I'd seen one so close up.
3
Dain caught a glimpse; another two said they saw it close up.
4
The property allows city folk a rare close up of working farms.
5
The sea was already close up to the stern of the boat.
1
If you dummy up on cops they will slap you around.
2
Meet Mr. Wood! she declared happily, holding the grinning dummy up in front of her.
3
Lindy lifted the dummy up by the legs, then slammed his body hard against the floor.
4
She hoisted the dummy up from the chair where it had spent the day beside Lindy's dummy.
5
Best to just dummy up.
1
The arms shut up in the arsenals were distributed among the populace.
2
Mrs. Sutcliffe would be shut up in the dining-room with the sewing-party.
3
The gnomes kept me shut up in their hill all the time.
4
The place is now shut up, and the owners live in France.
5
The troubled times of the Regulators shut up the courts of justice.
1
Then he got out, hitching his belt up over his considerable girth.
2
So why do they sometimes belt up and other times don't?
3
On the accessory front, men and women can belt up for the season.
4
She is urging road users over the Easter break to " belt up".
5
She brought the belt up, undid the loop, then wrapped it around her waist.
1
Tell her to button up her suit and turn her radio on.
2
I button up my jacket, thanking God for the warmth of it.
3
She began to button up her coat again with sure, thin fingers.
4
All he could do was button up again and hope nobody had noticed.
5
Then button up the coat, and do the same with that.
1
The one thing in the world we wanted was to be quiet.
2
She should avoid forwardness, and be quiet in manner and in speech.
3
I wish I were there; it must be quiet at any rate.
4
The men are required to be quiet and orderly in their deportment.
5
The horses are only a little balky; they will be quiet soon.
1
Well, you had better warn her to keep mum before her father.
2
And I know you'll be a friend of mine, and keep mum.
3
It don't make any difference WHAT happens, we got to keep mum.
4
Well, keep mum 'bout it, will ye, till I talk to him?
5
He thinks it a good joke and he will keep mum.
Usage of clam up in English
1
She would immediately clam up or try to change the subject.
2
If I asked him questions straight out, he might clam up.
3
This caused the three Martians to clam up and look at one another.
4
Wallander thought that if he pushed too hard the boy might clam up.
5
You can't just say something like that and then clam up!
6
The more she prodded, the more tightly Sara would clam up.
7
Why do I have to clam up just because he's dead?
8
I'm very shy, so going to prison made me clam up even more.
9
He sensed that doing so would cause the boy to clam up again.
10
Then they can clam up with the best of them.
11
Why did you all clam up when I came in?
12
Not sporting for you to clam up on me now.
13
Just don't let this guy Wren clam up on you.
14
The chefs quickly clam up when asked their respective head of state's favorite meal.
15
He might clam up and ditch or destroy the Rodin.
16
Grace, looking exactly like a Halloween witch, hissed, Why don't you clam up, William?
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