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tight-lipped

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[tight-lipped] {adj.}

A taciturn person; one who doesn't say much.

* /The witness was tight-lipped about what she saw for fear of physical retaliation by the mob./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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