hold one's tongue
Example Sentences
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At least this once, one could hold one's tongue.
From Time Magazine Archive
But it seemed fatally easy to hold one's tongue.
From Under False Pretences A Novel by Sergeant, Adeline
If after the help one has had from you one can't either take care of one's self or simply hold one's tongue, one must renounce all claim to be an object of interest.
From The Ambassadors by James, Henry
A chaplain therefore had his trials, but in spite of them it was the policy of wisdom not to show resentment and to hold one's tongue.
From The Great War As I Saw It by Scott, Frederick George
But then, at such a place as Littlebath, one would have to hold one's tongue altogether.
From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony
