seal your lips
Keep it secret
To seal your lips is to keep silent, especially about something secret or sensitive.
The phrase implies a deliberate commitment not to speak: I'll tell you, but you have to seal your lips.
Often appears as a command or promise.
Related to the gesture of running a finger across closed lips, as if sealing an envelope.
- hushAbsence of sound
- hush hushExtremely secret, concealed
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- secretConcealed information
- quietLacking in sound
mum · keep mum · shh · whisper · confidential · top secret · zip it · sworn · sworn to secrecy · pinky promise · promise · discreet · mute · button it · tongue · confession · trust · locked
seal your lipsspill the beans
Reveal confidential information
let the cat out of the bag · blab · tell all · divulge · disclose
seal your lipsspeak up
Talk louder or opine
speak out · open your mouth · let it out · sound off · speak your mind
seal your lipsloose lips
Habit of revealing secrets
speak your mind · hold forth · overshare · gossip · chatter
seal, seals, sealed, sealing, sealant, your, yours, yourself, yourselves