shut up and color
v. phr.— «By basically telling his first officer to “shut up and color,” he has likely eliminated any backup that this first officer will provide in the future.» —by Anthony T. Kern Redefining Airmanship , 1997. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The new book Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words (Bookshop|Amazon) by linguist Michael Erard is a deeply researched, often intensely personal exploration of the ways people communicate at both the beginning and end of life...
The haunting new novel Clear (Bookshop|Amazon) by Carys Davies is set amid the Scottish Clearances of the 19th century, a relentless program of forced evictions that drove whole communities of tenant farmers off the land. The story concerns a...