put a sock in it
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Etymology[edit]
Possibly from a crude means of muffling a record player's speaker.
Pronunciation[edit]
Audio (General Australian): (file)
Verb[edit]
put a sock in it (third-person singular simple present puts a sock in it, present participle putting a sock in it, simple past and past participle put a sock in it)
- (figuratively, informal, humorous, idiomatic) To stop talking; to be quiet; to shut one's mouth.
- He went on and on until I finally told him to put a sock in it.
- 1943 September and October, T. Lovatt Williams, “Some Reminiscences of the Footplate—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 271:
- I found out from his mate that he was a Longfellow fan, and the fireman complained bitterly that, not being poetically inclined himself, he often wished that Alfred would "put a sock in it."
Synonyms[edit]
- See also Thesaurus:stop talking
Translations[edit]
To stop talking; to be quiet; to shut one's mouth
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Further reading[edit]
- “put a sock in it”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.