Refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent.
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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 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 !
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 .
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 .
6 She set the shoes down on the chair and picked the dummy up gently as if picking up a baby.
8 " Dummy up , Bev," he said, and took his hand away.
9 'Cimi, you tell everyone to dummy up .
10 "Really?" Kris hurried over to the chair and picked the new dummy up to examine him.
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