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clam up

verb

  1. informal.
    intr, adverb to keep or become silent or withhold information
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Refuse to talk or respond, as in Whenever she asks her teenager about his activities, he clams up . This term alludes to the tightly closed valves of a live clam. [ Slang ; early 1900s]
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However, he clammed up when Welker asked him to share other methods in which he might stay on.

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Another factor is 鈥渏ust having extreme social anxiety for a long, long time. People were fascinating to me, but also scary. I would kind of clam up around people because my brain would short-circuit.鈥

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As a nation, we are so 鈥渃lammed up鈥 about death, illness and mental health, says Alison, that it is a stigma that Parys died from an accidental drug overdose.

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鈥淲hat kind of helpful information would be in books about a wannabe Chosen One who clams up when it鈥檚 time to stop the bad guy?鈥

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鈥淏ut as soon as we turned our microphones on and stuck them in their faces, they totally clammed up.鈥

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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