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
If after the help one has had from you one can't either take care of one's self or simply hold one's tongue, one must renounce all claim to be an object of interest.
From The Ambassadors by James, Henry
This answer incensed me greatly, for I had not yet learnt that one of the chief conditions of "comme il faut"-ness was to hold one's tongue about the labour by which it had been acquired.
From Youth by Hogarth, C. J.
A chaplain therefore had his trials, but in spite of them it was the policy of wisdom not to show resentment and to hold one's tongue.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Scott, Frederick George
