shut your mouth

Example Sentences

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Guardiola: "With top scorers or strikers who score a lot of goals, don't criticise because he will shut your mouth, that's for sure."

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2024

Ashley Cole and Sol Campbell get involved: ‘Carry on, Nicklas, keep on running and shut your mouth.’

From The Guardian • Nov. 1, 2019

“To all their victims, don’t shut your mouth, open your mouth.”

From New York Times • May 30, 2016

Every once in a while he would point his finger at me and say, “If you’ll shut your mouth for a minute you might learn something.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2014

‘I have thought of something better than that. Something to shut your mouth, and punish you properly for listening. You shall go away with Mr. Frodo!’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien