not a word

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Do not tell anyone; keep (something) a secret.

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Meanings

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  1. Do not tell anyone; keep (something) a secret.

    Once when he was alone with the Englishman he took occasion to make it quite plain that his engagement to Miss Strong was to be announced immediately upon their return to America. “But not a word of it, my dear Tennington—not a word of it.”

    1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 111
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