hold one's tongue

Example Sentences

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At least this once, one could hold one's tongue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anyway, one can't hold one's tongue when one has a feeling, a tangible feeling, that one might be a help if only....

From Crime and Punishment by Garnett, Constance

But I say again, as I said at first: if one could only hold one's tongue as to what one sees, one would be the better for it.

From Pepper & Salt or, Seasoning for Young Folk by Pyle, Howard

The vast moral importance of being able to hold one's tongue, the golden resources of silence, should be emphasized by the teacher.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

But then, at such a place as Littlebath, one would have to hold one's tongue altogether.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony