keep your mouth shut

Meaning

1. Oxford85% of films

   to not talk about sth to sb because it is a secret or because it will upset or annoy them

   and always keep your mouth shut.

In the movies · 36

• Lay low and keep your mouth shut.His Girl Friday1940
• and always keep your mouth shut.GoodFellas1990
• but not paying them enough to keep their mouth shutFast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw2019
• Keep your mouth shut!An American Crime2007
• Keep your mouth shut.Belfast2021
• Keep your mouth shut.Fight Club1999
• Then keep your mouth shut.The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002
• Keep your mouth shutDark Phoenix2019

Learn it in full scenes

• His Girl Friday1940
  • Hildy Tells Walter She's Remarrying
  • Hildy Quits the Post
  • Walter Meets Bruce Baldwin
• GoodFellas1990
  • Henry Wants to Be a Gangster
  • Young Henry Gets Beaten and Recruited
  • Paulie's Protection Racket
• An American Crime2007
  • Sylvia Meets Friends at Church
  • Paula Brags About Her Married Boyfriend
  • Gertrude Takes In the Likens Girls

From the same entry

• be all mouth
• down in the mouth
• out of the mouths of babes
• run off at the mouth
• have a big mouth
• me and my big mouth
• born with a silver spoon in your mouth
• take the bread out of mouth
• butter wouldn't melt
• foam at the mouth
• put your foot in it
• look a gift horse in the mouth

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