The phrase
"to hush up" means to keep something secret or quiet, often by preventing people from talking about it.
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Things are as
hushed up in your protestant churches is my point.
We have been told, till one is sick of hearing it, that sexual desire is in the same state as any of our other natural desires and that if only we abandon the silly Victorian idea
of hushing it up, everything in the garden will be lovely....
The general expectation seems to be that fans are entitled to complain when results aren't going their way, but should
hush up when results start to go well.
Like the Haitian revolution, which was
hushed up by the French authorities for years before Napoleon eventually sent an army to quash it, the nuclear ban - treaty movement has been ignored in public discourse.
If the company
indeed hushed it up, it would likely provide grounds for Verizon to demand a lower price for Yahoo or to call off the deal entirely.
He doesn't disagree with them, he just wants them to
hush up so someone can get elected.
It published a new summary of its procedures on sexual abuse cases Monday, as it fights the perception that it has tried to
hush up abuse in the past.
Oh hush up — the same can be said about both sides.
Indeed, it's only because he is also a Franciscan (and probably because his
order hushed him up), that he has the humility not to fight back and defend himself..
I'd
better hush up and not talk about Miss Nature or she'll get back at me this winter, which I do not want.
The incident was
hushed up at New Rochelle City Hall until a reader tip sparked a Talk of the Sound investigation which turned up a police incident report last week.
And when things go wrong there is a tendency to
hush them up out of an overarching concern about the agency's bond rating.
«The British establishment has a history of looking after its own and
hushing up peccadillos in the interest of what they see as national security.
Perhaps Kirsten is hesitant to defend her abiding loyalty to Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, whose role in using public money to
hush up victims of serial sexual abuse has prompted ethics and criminal investigations of his actions, as well as calls for his resignation.
And money always talks, so even the women who spoke up and asked for change or justice, they were
often hushed up, brushed aside, buried in litigation, or told in a million different languages the ways in which they were expendable.
He had the
murder hushed up immediately, his security staff investigating the matter covertly but thoroughly.
It will deliver a new, revamped, cost - efficient, and fast Bitcoin that would
forever hush up skeptics who question its viability as a digital medium of exchange.
The car - ride giant admitted to paying hackers $ 100,000 to
hush up the compromise of personal records belonging to 57 million consumers and 600,000 drivers.
He alluded to the fact that housing bubbles create this kind of social damage, but all that's been
hushed up.
Until then, sit down and
hush up.
They would
hush it up and the media would not run it except as a tiny paragraph on page 23 in real newspapers.
Not even if the elders were informed and tried to
hush it up.
Without it man «listens to the myth of Lucifer and
hushes it up in his own life.»
They tell you sex has become messed up because it was
hushed up.
It can't be minimized or
hushed up.
But for the last twenty years it has not been
hushed up.
Now be a good Christian girl and
hush up, and go make us men a sammich!
He was struck by the contrast between veteran Senator Everett Dirksen — who shouted at one delegate a «peevish, boorish command, «
Hush up!
We stressed the priesthood of all believers and played down the particularity of order; we indulged a passion of ecumenicism, and
hushed up the painful fact that schism and heresy are still sins.
Okay, okay, I'll
hush up.
The case was
hushed up, but last week the man charged with the crime, still at large, spoke freely with SI