Hush your mouth

Meaning

A dramatic way to tell someone to stop talking or to express shock at something they just said. It is often used when someone says something gossipy or slightly scandalous.

Dramatic, playful

Used in a sentence

• He started telling a tall tale, and she laughed, hush your mouth!
• When I told her the surprising news, she gasped and said, hush your mouth!
• The gossip was getting out of hand, so she said, oh, hush your mouth.