stay mum
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[edit]Verb
[edit]stay mum (third-person singular simple present stays mum, present participle staying mum, simple past and past participle stayed mum)
- Alternative form of keep mum
- 2019 October 9, Farhad Manjoo, “Dealing With China Isn’t Worth the Moral Cost”, in New York Times[1]:
- He’ll eagerly prosecute a pointless trade war against China, but when it comes to the millions in Hong Kong who are protesting China’s creeping despotism over their territory, Trump prefers to stay mum.