| 词组 | hold your peace/tongue |
| 释义 | hold (one's) peaceTo stay quiet despite wanting to say something. Just hold your peace if you don't have anything constructive to add. I knew that anything I said would just make her angry, so I decided to hold my peace. hold (one's) tongueTo stay quiet despite wanting to say something If you want to say something rude to my girlfriend, please hold your tongue, all right? hold one's peaceto remain silent. Bill was unable to hold his peace any longer. "Don't do it!" he cried. Quiet, John. Hold your peace for a little while longer. hold one's tongueFig. to refrain from speaking; to refrain from saying something unpleasant. I felt like scolding her, but I held my tongue. Hold your tongue, John. You can't talk to me that way! hold your tongueIf you hold your tongue, you do not speak. Douglas held his tongue, preferring not to speak out on a politically sensitive issue. Note: People sometimes say hold your tongue as an angry way of telling someone to be quiet. `Hold your tongue, woman,' he had warned her furiously. hold your peaceremain silent about something.hold your tongueremain silent. informalˌhold your ˈpeace/ˈtongue(old-fashioned) say nothing; remain silent although you would like to give your opinion: We don’t want anyone to know what’s happened, so you’d better hold your tongue — do you understand?I didn’t want to start another argument, so I held my peace. |
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