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Shut your pie hole
Meaning
- A humorous or aggressive way to tell someone to stop talking. It implies the person's mouth is just an opening for food, so they should close it.
Sassy, combative
Used in a sentence
- Shut your pie hole and listen for a second.
- He told the heckler to shut his pie hole during the movie.
- If you do not shut your pie hole, I am going to leave.
The backstory
A mid-20th-century American slang term. Pie hole refers to the mouth, equating eating and talking as equally trivial tasks.
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