Meaning of hold one's peace | Babel Free

Definitions

To refrain from speaking; to be silent.

idiomatic

Examples

“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?”

“[U]nless he can give better arguments than he has given to show the truth of his observations, it would be well for him to hold his peace.”

“Washington was still waiting last week for Franklin Roosevelt to say or do something about Sit-Down. . . . But if he held his peace on one topic, he spoke out boldly on another.”

“Supermarket suppliers with a grievance have been urged to speak up soon or forever hold their peace.”

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