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English
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Etymology
Possibly from a crude means of muffling a record player's speaker.
Pronunciation
Verb
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
Translations
To stop talking; to be quiet; to shut one's mouth
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