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Wall of silence   /wɔl əv sˈaɪləns/   Listen
Wall of silence

noun
1.
The secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers.  Synonyms: blue wall, blue wall of silence.



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"Wall of silence" Quotes from Famous Books



... black night that rushed past the two clinging figures and enveloped them in a wall of silence. Then out of the mysterious fastness came the dull glow of what looked like a distant planet. It grew and enlarged till it reached the size of a silver dollar. Little pin-points of light soon began to appear on all sides of it, ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 • Various

... this convinced her that she had guessed the truth, and that he knew she had guessed it. "He will always know what I am thinking, and he will never dare to ask me," she thought; and she saw between them the same insurmountable wall of silence as between herself and Owen, a wall of glass through which they could watch each other's faintest motions but which no ...
— The Reef • Edith Wharton



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