keep one's mouth shut

Idioms  

1. Be quiet; don't reveal confidential information. For example, The teachers told us to keep our mouths shut during the entire presentation, or You can't tell Carol anything; she's incapable of keeping her mouth shut. Also see hold one's tongue.

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keep one's mouth shut

It's perhaps wiser to keep one's mouth shut if you don't know the words, as former Welsh Secretary John Redwood discovered in 1993 as he struggled to mime along to Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2015

Moreover, in life I have found it the best policy to keep one's mouth shut.

From A Village of Vagabonds by Smith, F. Berkeley (Frank Berkeley)

"Perhaps it is as well that the laws of politeness keep one's mouth shut at times, and that we do not say what we feel."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 by Various