loose lips sink ships
English edit
Etymology edit
Shortening of a wartime slogan.
Proverb edit
- Saying too much or releasing confidential information can have dangerous consequences.
- 2000, Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, Anchor, published 2007, →ISBN, page 448:
- Loose Lips Sink Ships, said the wartime poster. Of course the ships will all sink anyway, sooner or later.
- 2014, Crystal Chan, Bird, Random House, →ISBN, page 59:
- ‘Loose lips sink ships,’ she spat at Dad once, when they were arguing about Grandpa, but ‘loose lips killed our son.’
Translations edit
saying too much or releasing confidential information can have dangerous consequences
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Further reading edit
- loose lips sink ships on Wikipedia.Wikipedia