maiabulela
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Can you please, give me more idioms that mean "Walls have ears" some famous ones?
Thanks.
Thanks.
HiCan you please, give me more idioms that mean "Walls have ears" some famous ones?
Thanks.
Hi
I have only one of Arabic origin: 'A secret is like a dove; when it leaves my hand it takes wing'.
S.M.
'Careless talk costs lives' was used in the war as a slogan with a similar meaning and is still used sometimes.
'...costs lives' means 'people may die because of it'. As Tdol said, this expression is still used as a general warning about gossip. The other phrase that has been mentioned - 'Loose lips sink ships' - isn't. It just applied during the war (especially for a country like the UK that imports a lot of food).Hi. Tdol.
Does "Careless talk costs lives" mean that gossip makes no sense, or that gossip cost expensively, maybe about time, money, or other else. I don't know what exactly it stands for?
Tdol, there is also the caption, "Loose Lips Sink Ships" from World War 2 posters.
Are you thinking about the issue of keeping secrets, maiabulela?
Here is a well-known quotation in the United States: Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ~ Benjamin Franklin
My grandmother often used a saying common to her generation: "Little pictures have big ears." It was difficult for the children to realize that she was refering to them, listening to the adult conversations.
Steve
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