hold your tongue

Example Sentences

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What would you say to that older woman who says, just hold your tongue and don’t assert your humanity in a moment when someone disagrees with you.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Do you ever find yourself having to hold your tongue?

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2022

The working theory seems to be that if you can just hold your tongue now, you can someday wield your power honorably.

From Slate • Oct. 14, 2020

But if you raise money from investment bankers you don’t want them thinking you’d ever talk about them that way, so you hold your tongue.

From Salon • Jul. 29, 2019

You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald