🤖 Literally, in English
“Keep your tongue behind your teeth.”
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🤨 What does it ACTUALLY mean? →
🇬🇧 What you'd actually say
“Keep your mouth shut.”
also: “Don't say a word.” · “Keep it to yourself.”
- 📖 Meaning
- Do not tell anyone; stay silent.
- 💡 Why it's funny
- Anatomically it is excellent advice for everyone at all times, which is what makes the literal version funny.
- 🧭 Closest English idiom
- “Hold your tongue.”
- 📝 Explanation
- A warning, sometimes protective ('don't get yourself in trouble') and sometimes threatening.
🧠 Learn
- keep something to yourself (phrase) — to not tell anyone — тримати при собі “Keep this to yourself for now.”
- hold your tongue (idiom) — to stop yourself from speaking — припнути язика “I had to hold my tongue in the meeting.”
🗣 In context
Про це нікому. Тримай язик за зубами.
Not a word to anyone. Keep your mouth shut.
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