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Wall of silence

noun

The secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers. Synonyms: blue wall, blue wall of silence.

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... this convinced her that she had guessed the truth, and that he knew she had guessed it. "He will always know what I am thinking, and he will never dare to ask me," she thought; and she saw between them the same insurmountable wall of silence as between herself and Owen, a wall of glass through which they could watch each other's faintest motions but which no ...

— The Reef • Edith Wharton

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... black night that rushed past the two clinging figures and enveloped them in a wall of silence. Then out of the mysterious fastness came the dull glow of what looked like a distant planet. It grew and enlarged till it reached the size of a silver dollar. Little pin-points of light soon began to appear on all sides of it, ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various

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