"button one's lip" meaning in English

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      "form": "buttons one's lip",
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        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "buttoning one's lip",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buttoned one's lip",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "buttoned one's lip",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1910, Jim Nasium, \"The Baseball League on the Styx,\" The Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 15 May, p. 2 (retrieved 19 July 2010)",
          "text": "\"Yes,\" put in Solomon. \"I've been tipped off to this guy Mars, and you'd better tell him to button up his lip and not start anything.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971 October 13, Ted Blackman, “Green as team player too”, in Montreal Gazette, retrieved 2010-07-19, page 13",
          "text": "We advised John not to talk, to button his lip, but he talked anyway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010 June 1, Larry Woody, “Busch Better Heed Burton”, in FOXNews.com, retrieved 2010-07-19",
          "text": "Busch wisely buttoned his lip and didn't say anything else.",
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        }
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        "To remain silent, especially in order to keep a secret or to avoid saying something inappropriate."
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        "(idiomatic) To remain silent, especially in order to keep a secret or to avoid saying something inappropriate."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "button it"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "bite one's lip"
        },
        {
          "word": "zip one's lip"
        },
        {
          "word": "button up one's lip"
        }
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  "word": "button one's lip"
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      "form": "buttons one's lip",
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    {
      "form": "buttoned one's lip",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "buttoned one's lip",
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "button it"
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          "ref": "1910, Jim Nasium, \"The Baseball League on the Styx,\" The Sunday Press (Pittsburgh), 15 May, p. 2 (retrieved 19 July 2010)",
          "text": "\"Yes,\" put in Solomon. \"I've been tipped off to this guy Mars, and you'd better tell him to button up his lip and not start anything.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "1971 October 13, Ted Blackman, “Green as team player too”, in Montreal Gazette, retrieved 2010-07-19, page 13",
          "text": "We advised John not to talk, to button his lip, but he talked anyway.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2010 June 1, Larry Woody, “Busch Better Heed Burton”, in FOXNews.com, retrieved 2010-07-19",
          "text": "Busch wisely buttoned his lip and didn't say anything else.",
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        }
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        "To remain silent, especially in order to keep a secret or to avoid saying something inappropriate."
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        "(idiomatic) To remain silent, especially in order to keep a secret or to avoid saying something inappropriate."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "bite one's lip"
    },
    {
      "word": "zip one's lip"
    },
    {
      "word": "button up one's lip"
    }
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