clam up

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Verb

clam up

1. (intransitive, slang) To become silent; to stop talking, to shut up.
   • 1986, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Under the Desert Stars, Dark Horse Books

     Maybe he … or she … was a witness who refused to clam up … a whistle blower …

Synonyms

• shut up

Antonyms

• talk

Translations

• French: (colloquial) la fermer, (colloquial) fermer son clapet, (vulgar) fermer son claque-merde, (informal) la boucler
• German: schweigen
• Italian: tacere
• Portuguese: fechar-se
• Russian: замолка́ть
• Spanish: callarse

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