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tight-lipped

/tahyt-lipt/US // ˈtaɪtˈlɪpt //

讳莫如深,闭口不谈,缄默不语,缄口不言

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : speaking very little; taciturn; close-mouthed.
    • : having the lips drawn tight.

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Examples

  • And that means they also fall under the umbrella of programs most likely to get the axe when state and federal budgets are tight.

  • Because of the thinness of the air, there is a very tight margin between the correct and incorrect airspeeds, as little as 50 mph.

  • Weirich said whenever she saw Fox, she was wearing something too tight.

  • Major League Baseball, though, is still being tight-lipped about what the end of the embargo might mean for the sport.

  • Missy also gets a bit tight-lipped when it comes to her personal life.

  • "It's always the way with them," sighed Miss Grains, who suffered from a complication of romantic tendency and very tight stays.

  • His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.

  • She took to staring out across the grounds again, and one hand drew up slowly till it was doubled into a tight-shut little fist.

  • It is a very simple plan, and will be perfectly tight; it is by restoring an equilibrium on both sides of the piston.

  • Before that time we always put rope-yarn between the lap of the boiler-plates to make the seams tight.