- zip your lip
- If someone tells you to zip your lip, they want to to shut up or keep quiet about something. ('Zip it' is also used.)(Dorking School Dictionary)
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zip your lip
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zip your lip — If someone tells you to zip your lip, they want to to shut up or keep quiet about something. ( Zip it is also used.) … The small dictionary of idiomes
zip your lip — button/zip/your lip spoken phrase used for rudely telling someone not to say anything Thesaurus: ways of telling someone to stop talking or to be quietsynonym Main entry: lip * * * zip your lip … Useful english dictionary
Zip your lip! — Go to Zip (up) your lip! … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
Zip (up) your lip! — AND Zip it up! exclam. Be quiet!; Zip up your mouth! □ Shhhh! Zip up your lip! □ Zip your lip! □ Zip it up and listen! … Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions
button your lip — button up or button your lip (informal) Be quiet • • • Main Entry: ↑button * * * button/zip/your lip spoken phrase used for rudely telling someone not to say anything … Useful english dictionary
lip — [ lıp ] noun *** 1. ) count one of the two edges that form the top and bottom parts of your mouth: His thin red lips stretched into a smile. 2. ) count the place on the edge of a glass or container where you pour out liquid: Careful, the lip of… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
zip — 1 noun 1 (C) BrE two lines of small metal or plastic pieces that slide together to fasten a piece of clothing; zipper especially AmE: The zip on my skirt had broken. | do up/undo your zip (=close or open a piece of clothing using a zip): Your zip … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
zip — zip1 [zıp] n ↑zip [Sense: 1,2; Date: 1800 1900; Origin: From the sound of something moving very quickly.] [Sense: 3; Date: 1900 2000; Origin: zip code] 1.) BrE two lines of small metal or plastic pieces that slide together to fasten a piece of… … Dictionary of contemporary English
lip */*/*/ — UK [lɪp] / US noun Word forms lip : singular lip plural lips 1) [countable] one of the two edges that form the top and bottom parts of your mouth His thin red lips stretched into a smile. 2) a) [countable] the place on the edge of a glass or… … English dictionary
zip one's lip — verb To refrain from or to stop talking; to be quiet. Why don’t you just zip your lip? I’m tired of listening to you. Syn: button it, button one’s lip, can it, put a sock in it, shut it, shut one’s face, shut one’s gob, shut one’s mouth, shut… … Wiktionary
