tight-lipped [
'taɪt'lɪpt]
a. 紧闭嘴唇的, 寡言的
- As for Allen, he left his job as he had occupied it: tight-lipped and declining all comment to the media.
- Daniel J. Travanti, no longer the tight-lipped Furillo of "Hill Street Blues," is entering a new phase in his campaign to breach "that mythical, mystical, invisible barrier" that separates television from movie actors.
- Israeli government officials were tight-lipped about the immigration of Albanian Jews, apparently fearful of harming the effort.
- Investigators were tight-lipped Friday on the cause of the crash.
- A Montreal businessman who knows him said Mr. Stolzenberg "has investments all over the place" but is very tight-lipped about his business activities.
- He was very tall and tight-lipped and didn't seem to mind. Someone told us that young women sometimes write their hotel telephone numbers on bits of paper and stick them in the guardsmen's belts.
- His accessibility is unusual in a country where most executives are tight-lipped and publicity shy.
- Within 20 bars the opening movement of Children's Corner had been fussed by unnecessary ritardandi applied, it appeared, by rote; 'Jimbo's Lullaby' was never allowed to linger, while 'Golliwog's Cakewalk' stayed tight-lipped to the end.
- Neither man would comment to reporters after the hour-and-a-half meeting, and Dukakis walked tight-lipped through a crush of reporters in the lobby.
- The securities firms, lawyers and consultants on the offering are tight-lipped about details.
- Hitherto its two acts have been regarded as a stark, tight-lipped prologue to the grand romantic action at Carthage.
- Iran's leaders are tight-lipped about whether they will help their old adversary Iraq break U.N. sanctions.
- For security reasons, Soviet officials have been tight-lipped about the exact number of troops who will begin the move north on Sunday.
- The tight-lipped Mr. Volcker, Mr. Roberts said, never discussed the matter in Mr. Roberts' presence during his tenure at the Fed.
- And the hopeful news of the review, confirmed by the usually tight-lipped Texas company, came on the eve of today's shareholder meeting.
- "It's a new labor movement for the '90s," quipped AFL-CIO spokesman Rex Hardesty, who has pushed for tight-lipped union officials to improve their dealings with reporters.
- Charlestown's residents have always been tight-lipped, but these days it's a matter of more than a community code of silence _ it's a code of fear.
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