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hush-hush

/huhsh-huhsh/US // ˈhʌʃˌhʌʃ //

遮遮掩掩,掩耳盗铃,遮遮掩掩的,遮遮掩掩地

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : highly secret or confidential: a hush-hush political investigation.

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Examples

  • The Church would “deal with the families in as limited way as possible, and pay them hush money.”

  • And they must just accept that after 20 years of trying to hush us and badmouth us.

  • Escorting is big business on the straight side too, only more of a hush-hush operation.

  • She hesitated to explain any further because, she said, “TLC has kind of told us to hush-hush.”

  • My mother took me to a live radio show in downtown Houston, and we had to be all hush as the skits were conducted.

  • Here there was a scuffling sound in the basket, and the Roc rapped on the cover with her hard beak, and cried, "Hush!"

  • How still and calm the night was, the very stars were painted on the sky, the lights were low, there lay a hush upon the audience.

  • He caught his breath, he paused, then stepped within on tiptoe, and the hush of four thousand years closed after him.

  • He was taken up for dead; and Richelieu and the Cardinal conjured me to hush the affair.

  • Amid the hush that followed, the stranger picked himself slowly up, and sought to wipe the filth from his face and garments.