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keep mum

(= shut up) refuse to talk or stop talking; fall silent The children shut up when their father approached

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The rise of right-wing populism reflects revived yearnings for pure national communities that keep immigrants and minorities out.
My hosts replied that they needed to keep up with China.
The world's advice givers might try to keep this in mind when offering to help leaders of distant countries that are grappling with problems with which the adviser has little or no first-hand experience.
It would give developing nations a strong incentive to accept mandatory quotas, because if they can keep their per capita emissions low, they will have excess emissions rights to sell to the industrialized nations.
But the Germans, undaunted by it all, simply keep celebrating one great soccer party with their newfound friends from all over the world.
A team that is unable to keep going at full speed for the full 90 (or more) minutes, switch from defense to offense quickly with the whole team, and maintain control of the ball to restrict their opponents' movements won't stand much of a chance.
Soldiers cannot keep peace among desperately hungry people.
Yet closing the plant proves that we keep our promises.
When coral populations decline in the aftermath of cyclones, diseases, and other disturbances, it is the herbivores that keep seaweed in check, and allow coral populations to recover.
Second, we must restore coral reefs' capacity to cope with environmental change--their resilience--by protecting the fish stocks that keep seaweed in check, and thereby facilitate the recovery of coral populations from bleaching.
Third, foreign central banks and sovereign wealth funds may be keen to keep buying up euros to hedge against risks to the US and their own economies.
He also testified that tax cuts are better than spending increases to keep surpluses from growing too large, but that uncertainty is enormous, so that any tax cuts should be canceled if they threatened to bring us back to an age of deficits.
The banks, having been recapitalized only to the extent necessary to keep them afloat, still have weak balance sheets.
For Murray, it is that social insurance means that behaving badly does not lead to catastrophe - and we need bad behavior to lead to catastrophe in order to keep people from behaving badly.
The Japan Investment Bank's decision to invest in port development in Burma - essential if the economy, too, is to be opened - is one positive sign that the world will keep pace with Thein Sein step for step.
But this must be accompanied by measures to keep all Latin American countries on board.
In the face of these undeniable facts, the path chosen by the IMF and the World Bank was, at best, a mark of their incompetence and, at worst, a deliberate ploy to keep the sub-Saharan countries and their populations in bondage.
However, many of these plants are unable to keep up with rapid population growth and attendant increases in demand.
Usually France likes to keep its options open.
In part, the UN team wanted to keep humanitarian assistance lines open.
Madi's earnings help him keep his children in school, even at the height of the cotton harvest.
So the countries that benefit from this largesse have a responsibility to speak up for the constituents who help keep their economies afloat.
They need help - and society needs to keep guns out of their reach.
America and Europe will keep their high living standards only by basing their competitiveness on advanced skills, cutting-edge technologies, and modern infrastructure.

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