children should be seen and not heard en · X
Meanings
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Children should behave well and be quiet, especially in the presence of adults.
Until you can organize yourself and those who share your discontent, and compile and reconstruct some proposals for meeting the needs of gay youths, until you can present them in an adult (and I stress that word — ADULT) manner; lay low, my friend, for children should be seen and not heard.
1978 December 9, Donald Farwell, “Our Angry Young Man”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 4:
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Translations (10)
ru дете́й должно́ быть ви́дно, но не слы́шно (children should be quiet) · zh 小孩子应该少说话 (children should be quiet) · zh 小孩子别插嘴 (children should be quiet) · pt crianças devem ser vistas não ouvidas (children should be quiet) · zh 大人說話 (children should be quiet) · pl dzieci i ryby głosu nie mają (children should be quiet) · fi lasten pitää näkyä, mutta ei kuulua (children should be quiet) · zh 大人说话 (children should be quiet) · zh 小孩子應該少說話 (children should be quiet) · zh 小孩子別插嘴 (children should be quiet)