держать язык за зубами

More from "Russian idioms"

• жаба душит

  lit. - toad strangles; about a greedy or stingy person

• мыть кости / перемывать косточки

  to gossip, to discuss someone behind his back (lit. - to wash the bones)

• принять на грудь

  to have a drink (alcohol)

• вешать лапшу на уши

  to tell lies

• на всю катушку

  very loud, to the fullest, at a full scale

• ни в зуб ногой

  ≈ he doesn't know beans about it

• чистой воды

  of the first water, sheerest, clearest type of something, pure and simple, obvious

• нужен, как рыбе зонтик

  describes something unnecessary, needless, useless (≈ somebody needs it like a fish needs a bicycle)

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