to shut up
çekim: geçmiş hielt den Mund · ortaç den Mund gehalten · şimdiki hält den Mund · ulaç den Mund haltend
to hold one's tongue, to keep quiet
eş: garder le secret, ne pas desserrer les dents, muet comme une carpe
infinitive of callar combined with se
to hold one's tongue
çekim: geçmiş tenùto a freno la lingua · ortaç tenùto a freno la lingua · şimdiki tiène a freno la lingua · ulaç tenènte a freno la lingua
köken: Literally, “to hold/keep the tongue at brake”.
🔊 Mentre Kamala incassa: per strategia più che timidezza, giacché i consiglieri le hanno raccomandato di tenere a freno la lingua.
to shut up, to keep one's mouth shut
çekim: geçmiş höll käften
köken: From hålla (“hold”) + käften (“one's jaw”). Cognate with Danish holde kæft, Norwegian holde kjeft, and Icelandic halda kjafti.
🔊 Jag går upp och håller käften
to keep one's mouth shut, one's lips are sealed (to not reveal a secret)
köken: Literally, “to keep one's mouth on a padlock”.
to hold one's tongue (to refrain from talking about something)
eş: mlčet jako hrob
köken: From Proto-Slavic *dьržati ęzykъ za zǫby, literally, “to keep one's tongue behind the teeth”.
to keep one's mouth shut
çekim: geçmiş și-a ținut gura · ortaç și-a ținut gura
köken: Literally, “to hold one’s mouth”.
to shut one's mouth, hold one's tongue, shut up, hold one's peace (to stop talking)
köken: befog (“to hold, harness”) + -ja (personal suffix) + a (“the”) + száj (“mouth”) + -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix) + -t (accusative suffix), literally “to hold one's mouth”
Hold your tongues! Shut up, all of you!
köken: Literally a command to more than one person to "express your support by means of your tongues!" in allusion to the silence maintained in sacred rituals.
shut up · shut one's mouth
çekim: geçmiş holdt kæft
köken: Cognate with Norwegian holde kjeft, Swedish hålla käften, and Icelandic halda kjafti.