shut(someone)up
phrasal verbwithshutverb[IorT]uk/ʃʌt/us/ʃʌt/present participleshutting|past tense and past participleshut
informalB2
tostoptalkingor making anoise, or to make someone do this:
Iwishyou'dshutup for amomentandlistento what therestof us have to say.
Justshutup and get on withyourwork!
Mydadneverstopstalking. It'simpossibletoshuthim up!
figurativeIf youbreatheasingleword to thepolice, we'llshutyou upfor good(=killyou).
tostopsomeone fromtalkingabout aparticularsubjector fromcomplainingoraskingfor things:
Thekidskeptsaying howhungrythey were, sotheirfathergave them somebiscuitstoshutthem up.
- Iwishforonceshe'dshutup andlistento what someoneelsehas to say.
- Once shestartsyou can'tshuther up.
- In the end I gave her themoneyjust toshuther up.
- Iagreedwith him just toshuthim up.
- Don't you justwanttotellhim toshutup?
Interrupting & preventing from speaking
- accost
- barge
- belt up
- blurtsomethingout
- break
- breaksomeonein
- butt in
- chime
- cut the crap!idiom
- horn in
- interpolation
- interrupt
- interruption
- mike check
- nobble
- not get a word in edgewaysidiom
- sock
- speak
- strike
- waylay