hold one's tongue

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hold one's tongue 的定义

  1. Also, hold or keep one's peace. Keep quiet, remain silent, as in If you don't hold your tongue you'll have to go outside, or Jenny kept her peace about the wedding. The idiom with tongue uses hold in the sense of “restrain,” while the others use hold and keep in the sense of “preserve.” Chaucer used the first idiom in The Tale of Melibus: “Thee is better hold thy tongue still, than for to speak.” The variant appears in the traditional wedding service, telling anyone who knows that a marriage should not take place to “speak now or forever hold your peace.” [First half of 1300s] Also see keep quiet.

hold one's tongue 近义词

hold one's tongue

等同于 silence

hold one's tongue

等同于 quieten

hold one's tongue

等同于 shush

hold one's tongue

等同于 debrief

更多hold one's tongue例句

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  2. In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
  3. Yet this, in the end, is a book from which one emerges sad, gloomy, disenchanted, at least if we agree to take it seriously.
  4. The fear of violence should not determine what one does or does not say.
  5. The al Qaeda-linked gunmen shot back, but only managed to injure one officer before they were taken out.
  6. Practise gliding in the form of inflection, or slide, from one extreme of pitch to another.
  7. He alludes to it as one of their evil customs and used by them to produce insensibility.
  8. There was a rumor that Alessandro and his father had both died; but no one knew anything certainly.
  9. “Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
  10. Most of the men leaped up, caught hold of spears or knives, and rushed out.