To be quiet when one knows that if the wrong thing is said then there will be more trouble.
To not say something to anyone.
To keep a sensitive matter a secret.
To not divulge any information.
keep stumm
keep shtoom
keep shtum
I can’t tell you because you will not be able to keep schtum about it.
She can keep schtum about such a sensitive thing, you can trust her.
My aunt loves to gossip, she is not going to keep schtum if she ever finds out.
The whole college kept schtum about the incident, nobody said a word about what happened there that day, it is truly remarkable.
To keep schtum is a virtue that not everyone can carry.
The prisoner kept schtum for years to keep his comrades safe.
There is no origin for this idiom
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