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Joy Ho
2021-02-06 12:02
None of your lip British informal slang
To ask someone to stop talking; shut one's mouth
Pay attention and none of your lip.
I want to hear none of your lip but you keep sharing your ideas.
None of your lip! Just come here and fix it before she is back.
This idiom can be used as an imperative sentence. Also, it can follow a verb.
This idiom derives from the medieval English time when people had a habit of speaking literally. This way of expression comes from earlier than 1800s and reflects the fact that shut up in that time was expressed as none of your lip.
Do you see anything wrong?
Something or someone has been somewhere and become so familiar that it is hard for you to accept that place without them.
He was here for such a long time, so he was part of the furniture.
