Before very long the parents will be complaining that the child is so secretive and never tells them anything, but they seldom realize that they have brought this on themselves.
I was always very tightlipped about everything and, of course, when I first got the phone call that I was getting the part, they're like, " You can't tell anybody, 'cause we gotta wait till we make an announcement."
You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
Mr. Pence was tight-lipped as he left Mr. Schumer's office - " We're still talking, " he said - while a spokesman for Mr. Schumer, Justin Goodman, pronounced the two sides " very far apart."
" You were both there too, were you? " said Slughorn with great interest, looking from Ginny to Neville, but both of them sat clam-like before his encouraging smile.
The economist running the experiment is tight-lipped about the second, saying only that there are 100 balls divided between red and black in some ratio.