don't breathe a word
Example Sentences
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There you are with your comrades, every month, bold as brass, unapologetically coming to do your disruptive thing to me and my sisters and we don’t breathe a word.
From The Guardian • Sep. 4, 2019
It would have to be distinctly understood that you don’t breathe a word about it to a soul.”
From If Winter Don't A B C D E F Notsomuchinson by Pain, Barry
Now don’t breathe a word of it to a living soul, or I am a dead boy.
From Peck's Compendium of Fun by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
But don't breathe a word of this to any one till we've got something more to go on.
From Bert Wilson in the Rockies by Duffield, J. W.
In the meantime, when you go back, don’t breathe a word of having seen me, and on no account let any one persuade you to—sell the outfit.”
From Shoe-Bar Stratton by Gage, George W.
