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shut up |
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shut someone up to silence someone. Oh, shut yourself up! Will you please shut up that crying baby! shut (somebody) up to stop talking or making noise, or to make someone do this I wish you'd shut up and listen. He called me a fool, and that shut me up. shut somebody/something up to keep people or animals in a separate place Every day she went up to a little room on the third floor where she shut herself up to work. At night we always kept the dog shut up in its cage. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched. Tell me your history and how you came to be shut up in that vase. You can see that it is shut up, and grass is growing on the drive. |
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