guard one's tongue

短语

守口如瓶

词形变化

guarded one's tongue guarding one's tongue guards one's tongue 三单 guards one's tongue guarding one's tongue 现在分词 guarded one's tongue 过去式 guarded one's tongue 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To be careful in what one says; to avoid divulging information or speaking in a way considered to be inappropriate or offensive.

    守口如瓶

    1696, Aphra Behn, “Love-Letters to a Gentleman,” Letter 3, in All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, London: Samuel Briscoe, p. 47, […] though I scorn to guard my Tongue, as hoping ’twill never offend willingly; yet I can, with much adoe, hold it, when I have a great mind to say a thousand things I know will be taken in an ill sence.