button lip



button (up) one's lip

Fig. to stop talking. (Fixed order.) Please button up your lip! Will you button your lip? I don't want the news to get out.
See also: button, lip

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Cirillochee-REEL-loItalian
Stipo-Croatian
Mathilda[mə'tildə]
Faigel-Yiddish
HadleyHAD-leeEnglish
Fleuretteflə-RET (English)French (Rare), Dutch (Rare), English (Rare)