cut short
clip
vilify
truncation
back in the knife drawer, Miss Sharp
knife
slash
sulk
twist someone's words
verbicide
whistle down the wind
loosen someone's tongue
bite one's tongue
bite one's lip
cutting off
abscission
put up or shut up
cutting
sick burn
balk
spare
detain
rescind
offcut
recision
can it
excide
lying
abscise
denunciatory
put one's foot down on
put one's foot down upon
telling-off
talk over
truncate
get off someone's back
close-cropped
suggest
cropped
cropping
chop down
abbreviate
denigratory
dry up
cut someone cold
tread on someone's toes
declaim
dismissably
kick off
cut
terse
save one's breath to cool one's porridge
come-off
glump
disparagement
mince words
crisp
outface
pronunciation
back that train up
laconic
cut down
pull one's head in
put a sock in it
gag
leave it out
pardon
deassertion
curt
curtailer
buttonholing
blip out
retract
curtailment
silence
backbite
crop
preach down
kick to the curb
gun down
underarticulation
monologue
slur
rouse
desistor
send to Coventry
mouthing
scissoring
well
blah blah blah
cold shoulder
mental reservation