Collocation
keep quiet
to stay silent or not reveal information; to avoid speaking
Definition
'keep quiet' is a common English collocation. to stay silent or not reveal information; to avoid speaking
keep + quiet
“Please keep quiet during the movie.”
Examples
- Please keep quiet while the baby is sleeping.
- The librarian asked everyone to keep quiet in the reading area.
- We had to keep quiet so we would not scare the deer away.
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- If you know the surprise plan, you must keep quiet until Saturday.
- The teacher told the class to keep quiet when the test started.
- He tried to keep quiet, but his laughter gave him away.
- I kept quiet during the meeting because I did not have enough information.
- They promised to keep quiet about what they saw that night.
- Keep quiet for a minute and listen carefully to the instructions.
More verb + adjectives
- get ready to prepare yourself (or something) for an activity or event
- get angry to start feeling angry; to become angry
- go missing to disappear and not be found, especially unexpectedly
- go quiet to stop speaking or making noise; to become silent, often suddenly
- keep calm to stay relaxed and not get upset or panicked, especially in a stressful situation