draw a veil over sth
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› If you draw a veil over a particular subject, you do not speak about it because it is unpleasant and you do not want to think about it: Yes, well I think we'll just draw a veil over what went on last night.Falling silent and not speaking
(Definition of draw a veil over sth from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be lost for words idiom
- bite sth back phrasal verb
- bite your tongue idiom
- dumbly adverb
- gob noun
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- keep yourself to yourself phrasal verb
- not be on speaking terms idiom
- pipe down phrasal verb
- save your breath idiom
- silence is golden idiom
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- speechless adjective
- tight-lipped adjective
- tongue-tied adjective
- uncommunicative adjective
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