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my lips are sealed. I’ll keep it a secret, I won’t tell a soul. This has been traced to British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in 1936–37. Baldwin vowed confidentiality several times when asked about the abdication of King Edward VIII. “My lips are sealed,” he said on one occasion, “I am bound to keep silence.” Whether or not he invented the expression is unknown, but this is the first record of it. See loose lips sink ships. |