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| keep still; observe silence; hold one's peace; be tight-lipped (напр., Yukos officials were tight-lipped about the details of their gas contract Olga Okuneva); be quiet; be speechless; keep silence; keep silent; maintain silence; remain dumb; remain speechless; remain mute (Andrey Truhachev); keep shtum (Anglophile); mum (Nearly a year after Stargate Origins debuted, MGM is still mum on future plans for the sci-fi franchise Taras); stay quiet (Mr. Wolf) | |||
| be quiet as a mouse (Val_Ships); remain mute as a mouse (Val_Ships); keep one's mouth shut (Val_Ships); stonewall (Has he helped us in any way? No, he just stonewalled. Val_Ships); not to say a peep (Taras) | |||
| remain silent | |||
hold one's tongue (z484z); remain tight-lipped (Police in Nova Scotia have remained tight-lipped for days since they announced a “scaled back” search for two missing children from a rural part of the province, which entered its 10th day. Lilly and Jack Sullivan, aged six and four, were reported missing on the morning of May 2 from their home on Gairloch Road in Lansdowne Station, which is about 30 kilometres from New Glasgow, N.S.  globalnews.ca ART Vancouver) | |||
| button up one's mouth; kept shtum (AlesyaSparrow); keep mouth shut (Yeldar Azanbayev) | |||
| preserve silence; be silent; button up one's mouth; stay silent | |||
| keep quiet (Alex_Odeychuk) | |||
| be staying quiet (Alex_Odeychuk) | |||
| keep one's mouth shut; ice | |||
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| Diplomacy | 1 |
| General | 16 |
| Informal | 1 |
| Law | 4 |
| Makarov | 14 |
| Police | 2 |
| Rhetoric | 1 |