hold your tongue

Example Sentences

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What would you say to that older woman who says, just hold your tongue and don’t assert your humanity in a moment when someone disagrees with you.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Do you ever find yourself having to hold your tongue?

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022

But if you raise money from investment bankers you don’t want them thinking you’d ever talk about them that way, so you hold your tongue.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2019

Anything that involves self-control draws on that one willpower fuel source: so dieting takes energy away from your ability to hold your tongue in a conversation — and vice versa.

From Time • Jul. 24, 2015

“I don’t mean to imply that he won’t,” said I, “but it might make you hold your tongue about us and our money, I should think.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens