闭口不谈bì kǒu bù tán

avoid mentioning; button(up) one’s mouth (/lips); hold one’s tongue (/jaw/noise/peace);keep a still tongue in one’s head;keep one’s mouth shut (/one’s tongue between one’s teeth); keep mum(/silent/silence) about; make no mention whatsoever of; maintain silence about;not say a word about; not utter a syllable (/single word) about; refuse to say anything about; refrain from speaking about; shut one’s mouth (/teeth)
❍ 你不必旁敲侧击，不必对自己的真正意图～。You don’t have to beat about the bush and make no mention whatsoever of your real intentions.
❍ 然而，他对这个问题恰恰是～，讳莫如深。But this is the very question he tried to pass over in silence,not breathing a word to a soul.

• avatar
• avaunt
• avebury
• aveiro
• ave maria
• ave-mary
• avenge
• avens
• avenue
• aver
• average
• avernus，lake
• averroes
• averroism
• averse
• aversion therapy
• avert
• avery，milton
• avery，oswald theodore
• avesta
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• aveuaneda
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• avian influenza
• aviary