breathe a syllable

breathe a syllable
(breathe a syllable (чаще a word))
≈ осмелиться хоть слово сказать (обыкн. not to breathe a syllable или a word и словом не обмолвиться не проговориться, держать в секрете ; ≈ держать язык за зубами)

So the strike had been broken, and now no one could talk union in any Budd plant; workers who breathed a word of it were instantly fired. (U. Sinclair ‘World's End’, ch. 21) — Таким образом, забастовка была подавлена, теперь на заводах компании "Бадд" никто не смел и заикнуться о профессиональном союзе; если кто-нибудь из рабочих заговаривал об этом, его тотчас выбрасывали вон.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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