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
But till then, don't let this be seen, and don't breathe a word of what I have told you.
From The Rider of Waroona by Scott, G. Firth
Buy your needful timber to-morrow, engage carriers here in Rahnstadt, and a good master mason; but before all things, don't breathe a word of it to anybody!
From Seed-time and Harvest A Novel by Reuter, Fritz
Bring it back when you have read it; and don’t breathe a word of what it tells you to any living being.
From The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Brontë, Anne
B. Maslik's a Tochter," Scheikowitz added; "and remember, Elkan, don't breathe a word of this to Polatkin, otherwise he would never get through talking about it.
From Elkan Lubliner, American by Glass, Montague
