shut one's gob
To stop talking; to be quiet.
Why don't you just shut your gob? I'm tired of listening to you.
gob
/ɡɒb/
noun 6verb 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
big, fast, shut, shut
VERB + GOB
consisted, got, kept, liked, stuffing, wheeling
GOB + NOUN
food, she's, tom
PREP.
in, on, up, with
ADV.
always, such
Definitions
noun
1
A lump of soft or sticky material.
1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309, These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the interval but instead flushes out the chilled glass which accumulates during the dwell.
2
Saliva or phlegm.
He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
3
A whoopie pie.
verb
1
To gather into a lump.
1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60, I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and plunk it into the dark water.
2
To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
noun
1
The mouth.
He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
Oi, you, shut your gob!
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1952, The Glass Industry, Volume 33, Ashlee Publishing Company, page 309, These inventors have discovered that gobs may be fed at widely spaced times without allowing the glass to flow during the inte
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He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement.
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1997 March, William G. Tapply, How to Catch a Trout on a Sandwich, Field & Stream, page 60, I liked to gob up two or three worms on a snelled hook, pinch three or four split shot onto the leader, and
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He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food.
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Oi, you, shut your gob!
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She's got such a gob on her – she's always gossiping about someone or other.
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