hold one's peace
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It is not in human nature to be so extravagantly abused in times of intense excitement, and wholly to hold one's peace.
From Benjamin Franklin by Morse, John T. (John Torrey)
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 Roget, Peter Mark
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Eliot, Charles William
Very well, then; until one does have something to say, let one hold one's peace.
From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
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