keep one's mouth shut

VERB

refrain from divulging sensitive information; keep quiet about confidential information
Don't tell him any secrets--he cannot keep his mouth shut!

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How To Use keep one's mouth shut In A Sentence

In another of the documents, a Navy corpsman is quoted as saying, "there was a lot of peer pressure to keep one's mouth shut. 12/15/2004