hush up (someone or something)
idiom
: to prevent people from knowing the truth about (something, such as a crime)
hush up a crime/scandal
The city government tried to hush things up when the mayor was arrested.
Examples of hush up (someone or something) in a Sentence
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In other words, money that a person pays someone to hush up something.
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Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 6 May 2024
Fortune’s Lila MacLellan reports on how, fearing political reprisal, corporations may feel pressure to hush up about their DEI practices.
—Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
Casey Ellis, founder of Bugcrowd, acknowledged that some companies use bounty programs to hush up problems that should have been disclosed under state or federal rules.
—Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
And are other people in the party telling him to hush up and not talk about this?
—Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
Democrats and voting-rights activists aren’t unaware of these facts but hush up about them so as not to undercut the voter-suppression story line.
—Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
Beijing routinely uses market access as a powerful leverage to force Western business to hush up on human rights, or to toe its lines on issues such as Taiwan and Hong Kong.
—Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021
The Diacks were convicted last month in a Paris court on corruption charges including extorting athletes to hush up doping cases.
—Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
Some of the initiatives put in place by these major networks feel more like ways to suppress or hush up the community.
—Shelby Stewart, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2020
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Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 6 May 2024
Fortune’s Lila MacLellan reports on how, fearing political reprisal, corporations may feel pressure to hush up about their DEI practices.
—Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2023
Casey Ellis, founder of Bugcrowd, acknowledged that some companies use bounty programs to hush up problems that should have been disclosed under state or federal rules.
—Joseph Menn, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
And are other people in the party telling him to hush up and not talk about this?
—Robert Goulder, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
Democrats and voting-rights activists aren’t unaware of these facts but hush up about them so as not to undercut the voter-suppression story line.
—Jason L. Riley, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2022
Beijing routinely uses market access as a powerful leverage to force Western business to hush up on human rights, or to toe its lines on issues such as Taiwan and Hong Kong.
—Nectar Gan and Steve George, CNN, 19 Nov. 2021
The Diacks were convicted last month in a Paris court on corruption charges including extorting athletes to hush up doping cases.
—Graham Dunbar, Star Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
Some of the initiatives put in place by these major networks feel more like ways to suppress or hush up the community.
—Shelby Stewart, Houston Chronicle, 30 July 2020
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“Hush up (someone or something).” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hush%20up%20%28someone%20or%20something%29. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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