"put a sock in it" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from a crude means of muffling a record player's speaker.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts a sock in it",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting a sock in it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a sock in it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a sock in it",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> a sock in it"
      },
      "expansion": "put a sock in it (third-person singular simple present puts a sock in it, present participle putting a sock in it, simple past and past participle put a sock in it)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with placeholder \"it\"",
          "parents": [],
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He went on and on until I finally told him to put a sock in it.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943 September and October, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 271",
          "text": "I found out from his mate that he was a Longfellow fan, and the fireman complained bitterly that, not being poetically inclined himself, he often wished that Alfred would \"put a sock in it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop talking; to be quiet; to shut one's mouth."
      ],
      "id": "en-put_a_sock_in_it-en-verb-AkRE12N8",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
        [
          "talking",
          "talking"
        ],
        [
          "quiet",
          "quiet"
        ],
        [
          "shut",
          "shut"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, informal, humorous, idiomatic) To stop talking; to be quiet; to shut one's mouth."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "stick a sock in it"
        },
        {
          "word": "stuff a sock in it"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "humorous",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "zatykatʹsja",
          "sense": "To stop talking; to be quiet; to shut one's mouth",
          "word": "затыкаться"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-put a sock in it.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f9/En-au-put_a_sock_in_it.ogg/En-au-put_a_sock_in_it.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/En-au-put_a_sock_in_it.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put a sock in it"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from a crude means of muffling a record player's speaker.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "puts a sock in it",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "putting a sock in it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a sock in it",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "put a sock in it",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "put<,,put> a sock in it"
      },
      "expansion": "put a sock in it (third-person singular simple present puts a sock in it, present participle putting a sock in it, simple past and past participle put a sock in it)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "He went on and on until I finally told him to put a sock in it.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1943 September and October, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 271",
          "text": "I found out from his mate that he was a Longfellow fan, and the fireman complained bitterly that, not being poetically inclined himself, he often wished that Alfred would \"put a sock in it.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop talking; to be quiet; to shut one's mouth."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ],
        [
          "stop",
          "stop"
        ],
        [
          "talking",
          "talking"
        ],
        [
          "quiet",
          "quiet"
        ],
        [
          "shut",
          "shut"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(figuratively, informal, humorous, idiomatic) To stop talking; to be quiet; to shut one's mouth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "figuratively",
        "humorous",
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-put a sock in it.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/En-au-put_a_sock_in_it.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "stick a sock in it"
    },
    {
      "word": "stuff a sock in it"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "zatykatʹsja",
      "sense": "To stop talking; to be quiet; to shut one's mouth",
      "word": "затыкаться"
    }
  ],
  "word": "put a sock in it"
}