zip your lip
Keep it shut
Zip your lip is a command to stop talking or keep quiet, as if closing the mouth like a zipper.
It's slightly playful or dismissive, often directed at children or used between friends: Zip your lip—I don't want to hear another word about it.
Also appears as zip it.
- shushCommand for silence
- hushAbsence of sound
- hush hushExtremely secret, concealed
- silenceTotal lack of sound
- quietLacking in sound
mum · keep mum · secret · under wraps · whisper · sealed · muzzle · gag · tongue · mouth · shut · button · confidential · sworn · private · mute · stifle · clam up
- idiomstime flies, hit the sack, seize the day, ring a bell, break a leg
- hush commandsshh, shhh, ssh, hush up, be silent
- silence commandshush, shh, shush, be quiet, quiet
- quiet gesturesshush, shushing, hush
verbal expression permission/command
zip your lipspeak up
Talk louder or opine
speak your mind · open your mouth · speak out · let it out · talk
information disclosure
zip your lipspill the beans
Reveal confidential information
let the cat out of the bag · tell all · blab · come clean · divulge
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