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Hush up   /həʃ əp/   Listen
Hush up

verb
1.
Cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error.  Synonyms: gloss over, sleek over, whitewash.  "She tried to gloss over her mistakes"
2.
Cause to be quiet or not talk.  Synonyms: hush, quieten, shut up, silence, still.






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"Hush up" Quotes from Famous Books



... on my brow when I think of the cajoling and bribing and blustering and lying I had to practise in order to hush up the matter. As for Liosha, both Jaffery and I rated her soundly. I explained loftily that not so many years ago, transportation, lifelong imprisonment, death were the penalties for the felony which ...
— Jaffery • William J. Locke

... political questions that concern them as well as the men. Workingmen know little or nothing about conditions in many branches of industry, where women are mainly, or exclusively, engaged. Employers have all the interest in the world to hush up evils that they are responsible for. Factory inspection frequently does not extend to branches of industry in which women are exclusively employed: such as it is, it is utterly inadequate: and yet these are the very branches in which protective ...
— Woman under socialism • August Bebel

... will be after us all if you don't hush up," called one boy. "I guess she's coming," which had the desired effect. All the ...
— Five Little Peppers at School • Margaret Sidney

... I gained of a desire to conceal, to hush up, what I had tried to express in my book, led me to ...
— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy

... be busy with your own affairs," retorted Warren. "I have been busy writing my confession. Here is the manuscript. I will baffle all your efforts to hush up the affairs of the 'Lobster Club.' Furthermore, my confession," (and he exultantly waved a mass of manuscript at his visitor,) "will send young Van Cleft to prison for perjury on the certificate of his father's death. Captain Cronin, that prince of blockheads, ...
— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball


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