"keep one's lips sealed" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-keep one's lips sealed.ogg [Australia] Forms: keeps one's lips sealed [present, singular, third-person], keeping one's lips sealed [participle, present], kept one's lips sealed [participle, past], kept one's lips sealed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> one's lips sealed}} keep one's lips sealed (third-person singular simple present keeps one's lips sealed, present participle keeping one's lips sealed, simple past and past participle kept one's lips sealed)
  1. (idiomatic) To keep quiet; to keep a secret; to not tell. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Silence Synonyms: keep one's mouth shut Translations (keep quiet): 守口如瓶 (shǒukǒurúpíng) (Chinese Mandarin), sinetöidä huulensa (Finnish), ne rien dire (French), se taire (French), hallgat, mint a sír (Hungarian), trzymać język za zębami [imperfective] (Polish), держа́ть язы́к за зубами (deržátʹ jazýk za zubami) (Russian), держа́ть рот на замке (deržátʹ rot na zamke) (Russian), no soltar prenda (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-keep_one's_lips_sealed-en-verb-2B4Zf3Sx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

Inflected forms

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      "sense": "keep quiet",
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