tight-lipped

Preposition: about

incident: Unsurprisingly, the track proprietors kept tight-lipped about the incident, but now the news has leaked out.

Preposition: on

• subject: That wouldn't achieve anything. Devonshire himself was characteristically tight-lipped on the subject, although he claimed there had been no formal approach as yet.
• identity: Manager John Hughes was keeping tight-lipped on the identity of the mystery Nigerians but insisted the mis-matched work out was still a valuable one.

Modifying Another Word

• very: SRI has been very tight-lipped about them and has refused to say a word apart from the report to the New York meeting.
• similarly: Dr. Tim Langdell, managing director of The Edge, the company which has recently brought out Fairlight, is being similarly tight-lipped.
• characteristically: That wouldn't achieve anything. Devonshire himself was characteristically tight-lipped on the subject, although he claimed there had been no formal approach as yet.
• equally: Workers were equally tight-lipped with monitors from Bill McBride's campaign and the state Republican Party.
• quite: He's quite tight-lipped, quite dry and quite taciturn, but in an amused way.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: The Cabinet remained tight-lipped Thursday about the premier's planned visit.
• stay: At Castle Toward the company which operates the center were staying tight-lipped.
• keep: However as I have been with him during most of his misguided deeds, I will keep tight-lipped!

Modifies a noun

• leader: Tight-lipped leader general growth retail of space ranking the wound wider.
• mid-September: So whatâs changed between tight-lipped mid-September and slack-jawed mid-October?
• response: He fails completely to pick up on Ruth's tight-lipped response.