hold one's peace
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Where it is so simple if not so easy a thing to hold one's peace, why add to the general confusion of tongues?
From Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American by Charles William Eliot
In a busy highway of a night one must needs talk disconnectedly in shouted snatches or else hold one's peace.
From Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Very well, then; until one does have something to say, let one hold one's peace.
From The Young Man and the World by Albert Jeremiah Beveridge
Ought one not rather to hold one's peace than to afford the common enemy the encouragement of witnessing a squabble in the ranks?
From God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' by William Archer
V. be silent &c. adj.; keep silence, keep mum; hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw; not speak. &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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