hold one's tongue
Example Sentences
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At least this once, one could hold one's tongue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Oh, there's plenty of mystery about it all; and, once more, it's better to hold one's tongue!
From The Secret of Sarek by Maurice Leblanc
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 C. J. Hogarth
Ursus When one has talked to one's self for a great many years it is hard to hold one's tongue in public.
From Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes by Michael Strange
It's a great thing to hold one's tongue, Mr. Thorne; and I ought to know, for I've found the advantage of being naturally a silent woman.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878 by Various
