hold one's peace
verbDefinitions
To refrain from speaking
To refrain from speaking; to be silent.
- Thurio: How likes she my discourse? Proteus: Ill, when you talk of war. Thurio: But well, when I discourse of love and peace? Julia: [Aside] But better, indeed, when you hold your peace.
- I was dumb with silence, I held my peace
- Ne'er hold my peace, and ne'er stand still: I fart with twenty ladies by; They call me beast; and what care I?
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA