Idiom
zip one's lip
Meaning
To refrain from or to stop talking; to be quiet; shut up.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The teacher told him to zip his lip.”
“My sister threatened to tell everyone, so I paid her to zip her lip.”
“The detective leaned forward and warned the witness to zip his lip until the lawyer arrived.”
Examples
simple
“The teacher told him to zip his lip.”
contextual
“My sister threatened to tell everyone, so I paid her to zip her lip.”
complex
“The detective leaned forward and warned the witness to zip his lip until the lawyer arrived.”
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