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hold one's peace



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Idioms and Phrases

see under hold one's tongue .
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I would never choose to jeopardize a relationship, yet if that relationship is full of deception, or other undesirable attributes, and undiscerned by the other, is it noble to hold one's peace?

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But I knew by this time how to counter his stroke, which was to hold one's peace, as if one cared nothing about the matter.

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Ought one not rather to hold one's peace than to afford the common enemy the encouragement of witnessing a squabble in the ranks?

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"Alas, how comes it that Pustet has so long acquired the monopoly of liturgical books, and ... but no, better hold one's peace ... take this only for certain, that the German volumes are the absolute negation of the Gregorian tradition, the most complete heresy of plain chant."

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Where it is so simple if not so easy a thing to hold one's peace, why add to the general confusion of tongues?

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