10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHUT ONE'S FACE»
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• ) to shut one's face hi SHUT to someone's face 1. i^Hfe I flft SAW M 2. ffl^Jt (They
told me to my face that I was incompetent. ftflflffflSfS m □ to wipe the smile off ...
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Hitting the nail on the head: 3000 Redensarten deutsch-englisch
Mund • einen grolkn Mund haben to be cheeky (coll), to be mouthy (coll) That
child is horribly cheeky to her teachers. Mund • den Mund halten to shut up (coll),
to shut one's mouth, to shut one's face (coll)/ trap (dated), to shut one's hole (vulg)
, ...
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2000 Redewendungen Deutsch–Englisch
... and persuades people ofanything. Mund - einen großen Mund haben to be
cheeky (coll), to be mouthy (coll) That child is horribly cheeky to her teachers.
Mund - den Mund halten to shut up (coll), to shut one's mouth, to shut one's face (
coll) ...
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
... in French: chirp, cheep, chirrup, twitter, chatter, warble, trill, peep, sing, shrill,
squeal, squeak. 1 pipe down informal be quiet, quieten down, be silent, fall silent,
hush, stop talking, hold one's tongue; informal shut up, shut one's face/mouth/ ...
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Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
See also to shut one's face at shut verb. face-ache noun A mournful-looking
person; also as a disparaging term of address. 1937–. SIMPSON &GALTON On a
train . . . a carriageful of the most miserable-looking bunch of face- aches (1961).
John Ayto, John Simpson, 2010
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Allen's Dictionary of English Phrases
... to have a title, to be received into circles where you dare not show your face,
and so you acted the spy and informer, and ruined my prospects for ever. shut
one's face informal to stop talking, to keep quiet: usually in the imperative. 19th
cent.
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Cassell's Dictionary of Slang
... SHUT ONE'S FACE (UP) v. close one's trap v. see SHUT ONE'S TRAP v. close
shave n. (also close pinch, narrow shave, narrow squeak, near shave, near
squeak) [early 19C+] (orig. US) a very near thing. closet n.' [late 17C] the vagina (
cf.
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American expressions: a thesaurus of effective and colorful ...
get one's hands on lay hold of lay one's hands on seize upon hold one's tongue
save one's breath shut one's bazoo shut one's face shut one's mouth shut one's
trap shut one's yap shut up Start from the ground up from the top from the
ACTION ...
Robert B. Costello, Jess M. Stein, 1981
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Talkin' American: a dictionary of informal words and expressions
"in [s/ one's] FACE") >You'd better get outta his face, or he's gonna sock ya. —
shut [one's] face (see SHUT) — slap in the face (see SLAP) — staring [s/one] (
right) in the face (see STARING) — stuff [one's] face (see STUFF) — suck race (
see ...
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What people say they do with words: prolegomena to an ...
(Dl 1 ) I want this letter to be mailed today, so I must shut up in a minute Similar
extensions are not possible for TO SHUT ONE'S FACE/MOUTH/HEAD. Finally,
one can BEAT AROUND THE BUSH both orally and in writing, but one can only ...
