hold one's tongue
Example Sentences
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At least this once, one could hold one's tongue.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ursus When one has talked to one's self for a great many years it is hard to hold one's tongue in public.
From Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes by Strange, Michael
Anyway, one can't hold one's tongue when one has a feeling, a tangible feeling, that one might be a help if only....
From Crime and Punishment by Garnett, Constance
This answer incensed me greatly, for I had not yet learnt that one of the chief conditions of "comme il faut"-ness was to hold one's tongue about the labour by which it had been acquired.
From Youth by Hogarth, C. J.
Heaven! sir," said she—"Well, I must not speak, and yet it is certainly very hard to be obliged to hold one's tongue when one hears."—"
From History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry
