| 单词 | zipped lip |
| 释义 | > as lemmaszipped lip 2. figurative. Of a person's mouth or lips: tightly closed (indicating unwillingness to talk or divulge information, or suppressed emotion or determined reticence). Chiefly in zipped lip.Recorded earliest in the compound best-zipped. Π 1942 Ada (Okla.) Evening News 8 Feb. 7/1 If Uncle Sam really values the silence of people who know things, then he ought to give some sort of decoration to Lee Roy Phillips for one of the best-zipped lips in the service. 1943 J. Goodell They sent me to Iceland i. 17 Apparently Canadians were wiser in the matter of keeping a ‘zipped lip’. 1966 T. Pynchon Crying of Lot 49 vi. 158 Blobb inquired around about the Trystero organization, running into zipped mouths nearly every way he turned. 2012 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 19 Oct. He ruthlessly destroyed countless lives. And got away with it because of a culture of zipped lips and fear. < as lemmas |
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