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hush up
verb
- tr, adverb to suppress information or rumours about
Idioms and Phrases
Keep from public knowledge, suppress mention of. For example, They tried to hush up the damaging details . [First half of 1600s]Example Sentences
To hush up the affair he had started on a pilgrimage to Kang-rinpoche, but was caught and forbidden to return.
A good round sum of money was also given him to hush up the matter.
That McIntyre would make no attempt to hush up the scandal was obvious.
The woman was buried privately the next night, and an effort was made to hush up the story.
I understood from your report to Steinhauer that you were arranging that the Tsar should hush up the inquiry?
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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