hush up a scandal

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• hush up — {v.} 1. To keep news of (something) from getting out; prevent people from knowing about. * /It isn t always easy to hush up a scandal./ 2. {informal} To be or make quiet; stop talking, crying, or making some other noise. Often used as a command.… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• hush up — {v.} 1. To keep news of (something) from getting out; prevent people from knowing about. * /It isn t always easy to hush up a scandal./ 2. {informal} To be or make quiet; stop talking, crying, or making some other noise. Often used as a command.… …   Dictionary of American idioms

• hush — [[t]hʌʃ[/t]] interj. v. hushed, hush•ing, n. interj. 1) (used as a command to be silent or quiet.) 2) to become or be silent or quiet 3) to make silent; silence 4) to suppress mention of; keep concealed (often fol. by up): to hush up a… …   From formal English to slang

• hush\ up — v 1. To keep news of (smth) from getting out; prevent people from knowing about. It isn t always easy to hush up a scandal. 2. informal To be or make quiet; stop talking, crying, or making some other noise. Often used as a command. Hush up,… …   Словарь американских идиом

• Scandal (novel) — Scandal, or Priscilla s Kindness is a satirical novel by A. N. Wilson first published in 1983 about a British politician s rise and fall, the latter caused by a relationship with a prostitute. Although the title is the same and there are… …   Wikipedia

• scandal — n. 1) to cause, create a scandal 2) to cover up, hush up; uncover a scandal 3) a juicy, sensational scandal 4) an open; political; public scandal 5) a scandal bursts, erupts 6) a breath, hint, suggestion of scandal 7) a scandal that + clause (it… …   Combinatory dictionary

• hush up — verb 1. cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error Let s not whitewash the crimes of Stalin She tried to gloss over her mistakes • Syn: ↑whitewash, ↑gloss over, ↑sleek over • Derivationally related forms: ↑whitewash …   Useful english dictionary

• scandal — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ big, great, major ▪ current, recent ▪ national, public ▪ abuse …   Collocations dictionary

• hush up — 1) PHRASAL VERB If someone hushes something up, they prevent other people from knowing about it. [V n P] The scandal has been discussed by the politburo, although the authorities have tried to hush it up... [V P n (not pron)] The Ministry… …   English dictionary

• hush — hushedly /hush id lee, husht lee/, adv. hushful, adj. hushfully, adv. /hush/, interj. 1. (used as a command to be silent or quiet.) v.i. 2. to become or be silent or quiet: They hushed as the judge walked in. v.t. 3. to make silent; silence. 4.… …   Universalium

• hush money — noun A bribe to maintain secrecy (to prevent bad publicity or to prevent the discovery of a crime). The scandal was even greater when it was announced that hush money had been paid to keep the faulty products unannounced …   Wiktionary