- button your lip
- do not tell anyone, on the QT
Button your lip about the speeding ticket. Don't tell Dad.
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button your lip
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button your lip — button up or button your lip (informal) Be quiet • • • Main Entry: ↑button * * * button/zip/your lip spoken phrase used for rudely telling someone not to say anything … Useful english dictionary
button your lip — If you button your lip, you keep quiet and don t speak. It is also used as a way of telling someone to shut up … The small dictionary of idiomes
button your lip — If you button your lip, you keep quiet and don t speak. It is also used as a way of telling someone to shut up. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
Button your lip! — exclam. Shut up!; Be quiet! D I’ve heard enough outa you! Button your lip! … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
button your lip/lips — (or keep your lip/lips buttoned) US informal : to not talk about something Button your lip. He s coming toward us. Don t tell him what I said, please. You know he can t keep his lips buttoned. • • • Main Entry: ↑button button your lip/lips see… … Useful english dictionary
zip your lip — button/zip/your lip spoken phrase used for rudely telling someone not to say anything Thesaurus: ways of telling someone to stop talking or to be quietsynonym Main entry: lip * * * zip your lip … Useful english dictionary
button — but|ton1 S2 [ˈbʌtn] n [Date: 1300 1400; : Old French; Origin: boton, from boter; BUTT2] 1.) a small round flat object on your shirt, coat etc which you pass through a hole to fasten it ▪ small pearl buttons ▪ A button was missing from his shirt.… … Dictionary of contemporary English
button — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English boton, from Anglo French butun rose hip, stud, from buter to thrust more at butt Date: 14th century 1. a. a small knob or disk secured to an article (as of clothing) and used as a… … New Collegiate Dictionary
button up — verb refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent The children shut up when their father approached • Syn: ↑close up, ↑clam up, ↑dummy up, ↑shut up, ↑belt up, ↑be quiet, ↑keep mum … Useful english dictionary
lip — [ lıp ] noun *** 1. ) count one of the two edges that form the top and bottom parts of your mouth: His thin red lips stretched into a smile. 2. ) count the place on the edge of a glass or container where you pour out liquid: Careful, the lip of… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
