be on everyone's lips Idiom, Proverb
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lick one's lips
Idiom(s): lick one's lipsTheme: DRYNESS
to show eagerness or pleasure about a future event. (Informal. From the habit of people licking their lips when they are about to enjoy eating something.)
• The author's readers were licking their lips in anticipation of her new novel.
• The journalist was licking his lips when he went off to interview the disgraced politician.
button one's lips
Idiom(s): button one's lip(s)Theme: SILENCE
to get quiet and stay quiet. (Often used with children.)
• All right now, let's button our lips and listen to the story.
• Button your lip, Tom! I'll tell you when you can talk.
Loose lips sink ships.
Disclosing important information ( to the enemy or a competitor) could result in large losses.Loose lips sink ships
To have loose lips means to have a big mouth, susceptible to talking about everything and everyone. Sinking ships refers to anything from small acquaintances to long and hearty relationships (with friends or a significant other). So when one says loose lips sink ships, one is basically saying if you can't shut up you are going to end hurting people, usually psychologically or emotionally.Loose lips sink ships comes from World War I and/or WWII, when sailors on leave from their ships might talk about what ship they sailed on or where it had come from, or where it was going. If they talked too much (had 'loose lips') they might accidentally provide the enemy with anecdotal information that might later cause their ship to be tracked, and bombed and sunk, hence 'Loose lips sink ships.' Later, it came to mean any excessive talk might sabotage a project.Put lipstick on a pig
If people put lipstick on a pig, they make superficial or cosmetic changes, hoping that it will make the product more attractive.bite one's lips|bite|lip|lips
v. phr. To force oneself to remain silent and not to reveal one's feelings. I had to bite my lips when I heard my boss give the wrong orders.hang on the words of|hang|hang on the lips of|lip|
v. phr. To listen very attentively to. Ann hangs on every word of her history teacher and takes very careful notes. As he went on with his speech, his auditors, deeply interested, hung on his lips.be on everyone's lips
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