口をつぐむ – Vocabulary details

口くちをつぐむ

Expression

Verb (5-dan, む)

Idiomatic

1. to hold one's tongue; to shut up

それまでずっと口くちをつぐんでいた騎き士しが言いった。The knight, who had been silent until then, spoke.

mouth

mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door

to shut one's mouth; to hold one's tongue; to keep silent

口くちをつぐんでいるべきだった。

I should have kept my mouth shut.

言いい返かえそうとして、口くちをつぐむ。

I start to talk back, but then hold my tongue.

僕ぼくは言こと葉ばの途と中ちゅうで口くちをつぐんだ。

I stopped speaking in the middle of a sentence.

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