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Silence is golden
- Silence is of great value.
Idioms and Phrases
Keeping one's mouth shut is a great virtue, as in Don't tell anyone else about it—silence is golden . Although this precise phrase was first recorded only in 1848, it is part of a much older proverb, “Speech is silver and silence is golden.â€Example Sentences
So when Shiv comes at Greg, putting him in his place for trying to wrangle her away from the newscast set, he responds with, "Got it. Sorry. I guess my only question would be if anything did come to pass in terms of you and he," – referring to Matsson – "You know, silence is golden. Like, how golden? Is there any offer?"
The players, though, are starting to realize that silence is golden.
Biden was continuing a strategy his White House has honed on Trump over two years - silence is golden.
Dear Amy: I’m responding to that crazy question from “Silence is Golden,†who was insisting that all of her wedding guests must wear yellow, and that she wanted to have a “silent reception.â€
“Please it goes further than you would want to know. Silence is golden. I am staying silent,†read Hilton’s second text.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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