to ask someone to stop talking
to ask someone to shut up
to not say anything
The teacher had asked the student to be quiet several times but he was still talking. She got angry and asked him to put a sock in it.
I am going to put a sock in it until things are more finalized.
The rangers put a sock in it when they are looking for wild animals to place the tag on.
The lawyer had to put a sock in it when he went overboard with questioning the poor old lady.
My granddaughter has a lot to say at all times and just cannot put a sock in it.
The children immediately put a sock in it when it is time for their father to come home.
The maid had put a sock in it while doing the dishes because her employer was asleep on the sofa and could have gotten disturbed.
There is no origin for this idiom
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