don't breathe a word

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.

Don’t breathe a word, but President Trump is up to something.

In fact, multiple experts whispered about it to me and said they discuss it behind closed doors but don’t breathe a word about it elsewhere for fear of becoming the target of a presidential tweetstorm.

“Very well — go — and don’t breathe a word — not that — however, if you didn’t read — go now, I have to write up Peeves’ report — go —” Amazed at his luck, Harry sped out of the office, up the corridor, and back upstairs.

“Don’t breathe a word about this. Not to anyone. Especially not your mother. All right?”