shut up like a clam

Most of the time I shut up like a clam.

Don't make your questions too pointed or they'll shut up like a clam.

If you try, she shuts up like a clam.

Do you adore him and he's dead and so you've shut up like a clam?

"He's got his brain shut up like a clam!"

But Roy gave him a quick glance after he had looked about the room - and the old man shut up like a clam."

"All right, boss; one more little infraction and I'll shut up like a clam.

And she shut up like a clam.

He just shuts up like a clam.

Then he comes back on at one and works the after-hours - " She shut up like a clam in seawater.

'Don't know- turned me off, somehow, and then shut up like a clam.

"Corland had shut up like a clam," answered Halifax.

She Mr. Kirked him so politely and always shut up like a clam.

I could arrest him at once, but I'm afraid that if I do, he'll shut up like a clam and that will end it.

He said it began with the words: 'In the Golden Pagoda' and after that, he shut up like a clam."

But I told him about the pilot's story of a raid on Friday and how the man had shut up like a clam as soon as he saw Vayle.

"Secondly," Maschen went on, ignoring the other's jibe, "if I were to arrest Polaski outright, he'd shut up like a clam.

If I force the good Anne into the spotlight for even fifteen minutes, she shuts up like a clam the moment she's called upon to speak, and lets Anne number one do the talking.

"Leonard might have beaten the champion if he had a little more confidence," the Chicago Tribune said, "but even when he was having the best of the going he shut up like a clam and clinched for all he was worth."

She looked like the sort that shuts up like a clam the instant you start to ask a few straight questions, and this I will say for the Chief: to hear him getting people to tell him every last thing he wants to know, and a lot more besides, is a downright education!' '