| 单词 | to button up one's lip |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto button up one's lip (also mouth) P2. slang or colloquial. to button one's lip (also mouth), also (esp. in early use) to button up one's lip (also mouth), and variants: to be silent. Frequently in imperative. ΚΠ 1630 R. Harris 2 Serm. Good Conscience ii. 30 A power of speaking is not much, if a man will button vp his lippes. 1765 J. Redick Detection Conduct & Proc. Messrs. Annan & Henderson 25 And so pronouncing himself free from my Charge, (buttoned his Mouth and sat down). 1868 Notes & Queries 1 603 At school, it was thought quite an accomplishment in the young gentlemen who were fast of tongue to be able to silence a talkative comrade with the phrase ‘button your lip’. 1936 A. Huxley Eyeless in Gaza xxv. 352 Mr. Beavis..began to describe his researches into modern American slang..Horse feathers, dish the dope, button up your face—delicious! 1936 C. Odets Paradise Lost in Six Plays (1939) 200 Button up your funny mouth, Gussie! 1945 L. Shelly Hepcats Jive Talk Dict. 22/2 Button up your lip, don't talk. 2000 M. Barrowcliffe Girlfriend 44 xvi. 423 I decided to button my lip on the subject of modern manners and did as I was bidden. < as lemmas |
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