staying quiet
Holding your tongue
Staying quiet means remaining silent or refraining from speaking, often deliberately.
It can suggest keeping information to oneself: She's staying quiet about what she saw.
The phrase sometimes implies strategic restraint—choosing not to comment publicly or draw attention: The company is staying quiet until the investigation concludes.
It can also simply mean not making noise: The kids are staying quiet so they don't wake the baby.
- silentProducing no sound
- hushedReduced to silence
- muteWithout voice or sound
- speechlessUnable to talk
- keeping mumStaying deliberately silent
saying nothing · reserved · secretive · hush · whisper · stillness · tongue-tied · tight-lipped · mum · shush · zipped lips · restraint · holding back · biting tongue · bite your tongue · suppressing · discretion · playing dumb
- Biting Your Tongueholding back, keeping mum, zipping lips, silence
- silencesilent, mute, hush, stillness, muted
- staying hiddenhiding, disappearing
- inactioninaction, passivity, doing nothing, stillness, immobility
- deferencedeference, bow, curtsy, genuflect, kneeling
staying quietspeaking up
Voicing your thoughts
talking · chattering · yelling · shouting · vocalizing
staying quietspeaking out
speaking up · asserting oneself · standing up · expressing oneself · advocating
staying quietspeaking out
revealing · disclosing · spilling the beans · coming forward · blowing the whistle
staying, quiet, stay, stays, stayed, stayer, stayers, quietly, quieter