keep-shtum

Verb

(third-person singular simple present keeps shtum, present participle keeping shtum, simple past and past participle kept shtum)

(intransitive, colloquial, idiomatic) Don't tell anyone; especially, keep silent about something that may be sensitive or secret.
If I tell you, you have to promise to keep shtum about it.

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