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    –unknown
  1. the accompanying facts are a secret, not to be divulged

GNU Webster's 1913 (1 definition)

  1. keep this a secret; don't tell anybody.

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  • - While it appears that mum's the word for IBM management, IBM rank and file employees are talking ...
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  • Volumes have been written about Nazarbayev and about the so called Kazakh-Gate, mostly by the people who were privy to all this information from the very beginning but played mum's the word while they themselves were close to the president in the capacities of ministers, deputy premiers, governors, or in-laws.
 

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