| 单词 | to hold one's gab |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hold (also stow, †stash) one's gab P3. slang. to hold (also stow, †stash) one's gab and variants: to stop talking; to be quiet.Compare (in Scottish English, with a different set of verbs) the synonymous phrase to steek (also †dight) one's gab at gab n.2 Phrases. ΚΠ 1793 J. O'Keeffe London Hermit ii. ii. 39 It's not a palace, or a cake-house—I wish you'd hold your gab. 1810 J. Poole Hamlet Travestie i. iii. 10 Then hold your gab, and hear what I've to tell. 1863 C. Reade Hard Cash II. xv. 240 ‘Come, stash your gab, my lad’, said Green. 1871 E. Eiloart Just a Woman I. xv. 270 He went on a-jawin' till at last I told him if he didn't hold his gab I'd stick him. 1900 Manch. Weekly Times 7 Dec. Suppl. 9/5 In real life the sergeant would have told him to stow his gab. 1921 C. S. Raymond Four Corners i. 9 Samuel, wearied by a recital of his shortcomings, had asked Effa to hold her gab. 1947 Life 23 June 48/1 Stow the gab and give me yer license! 1992 B. Unsworth Sacred Hunger xii. 77 You hold your gab or you will go out on your arse. < as lemmas |
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