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"kept schtum" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It is a British slang phrase that means to keep silent or keep a secret. For example, "He knew the truth but he kept schtum, not wanting to get anyone in trouble."
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kept schtum
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Past of keep schtum
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Other normally garrulous strongmen in Gaza kept schtum.
Perhaps it is not surprising that those involved kept schtum; they didn't want to be laughed at.
The BBC confirmed in June that Matt Smith would be leaving the series after a four year stint in the coveted role - but kept schtum about who would be his replacement.
Labour's two Eds concentrated their attack on the chancellor for the fairness of his individual measures and kept schtum about the overall cuts strategy, of which they are only a small part.
"I deliberately kept schtum about the whole nitty-gritty of it," he says now. "I didn't want to talk about it until I knew I was in the clear, but I also didn't want to be one of those actors who endlessly flag up their travails.
The purported son of the old dark-haired King Robert Baratheon and Queen Cersei was in fact Cersei and brother Jaime's offspring, and how disappointed those light-haired siblings must have been in their only son (though if they were they kept schtum about it).
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Shay decides to keep schtum.
Least likely to: Keep schtum.
They dump the body in the sea, and manage to keep schtum.
We will all share in the responsibility if we continue to keep schtum.
It means to keep schtum while the Daily Mail calls independent judges "enemies of the people".
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