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单词 to be a good hatch before the door
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to be a good hatch before the door
P2. to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door and variants: to keep silent. Also: to be a good hatch before the door: to be a good incentive to keep silent. Obsolete.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]
to hold one's tonguec897
to keep one's tonguec897
to be (hold oneself) stilla1000
to say littleOE
to hold one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to keep (one's) silence?c1225
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
stillc1330
peacec1395
mum1440
to say neither buff nor baff1481
to keep (also play) mum1532
to charm the tonguec1540
to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546
hush1548
to play (at) mumbudgeta1564
not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590
to keep a still tongue in one's head1729
to sing small1738
to sew up1785
let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814
to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824
to choke back1844
mumchance1854
to keep one's trap shut1899
to choke up1907
to belt up1949
to keep (or stay) shtum1958
shtum1958
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. xi. sig. Diiv I would ye had kyst, well I will no more sturre, It is good to haue a hatche before the durre.
c1555 R. Smith in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 1262/1 Seing God hath geuen a tonge, And put it vnder power: The surest way is for to set A hatch before the doore.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 36v I wishe that euery rebuker shoulde place a hatch before the doore.
1582 A. Fleming tr. A. Autpertus Monomachie of Motiues v. 253 Now iudge if thou hadst not need set a hatch before thy tongue, that thou offend not in the same.
1588 R. Greene Pandosto sig. D Tush (quoth his wife) profit is a good hatch before the doore.
1616 J. Davies Select Second Husband sig. C7v Its good to keepe a Hatch before the Dore.
1659 J. Howell Prov. Eng. Toung 8/2 in Παροιμιογραϕια It is good to have a hatch before the door.
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