don't breathe a word
Example Sentences
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There you are with your comrades, every month, bold as brass, unapologetically coming to do your disruptive thing to me and my sisters and we don’t breathe a word.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2019
"Now go right back to your room and don't breathe a word of this to anyone."
From Through the Wall by Moffett, Cleveland
Hush! don't breathe a word; it is my secret; only I had to tell you because of what I saw in your face just now.
From The Rhodesian by Page, Gertrude
Now don't breathe a word of it to a living soul, or I am a dead boy.
From Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa 1883 by Smith, Gean
Keep your own counsel in the matter, and don't breathe a word about your intentions to anybody.
From The Water Ghost and Others by Bangs, John Kendrick
