Ben, feeling pressured to share information, might just clam up.
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Many people tend to clam up even around the people they love.
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You have a choice: Either clam up, or let go and embrace it.
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I was afraid that he would clam up if he drew such a conclusion.
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People affiliated with the Charles Martel Society instantly clam up about it when asked.
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When it comes to showing actual emotion, though, the majority of them clam up.
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" McWhorter fears that its chief result is to make people—white people—"clam up.
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They can sing and they're brilliant but when you talk to them, they clam up.
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I'm not saying that we should clam up whenever we encounter intolerance or outright hate.
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With eyes located all alongside their outer shell, they clam up when they sense danger.
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I think that she did clam up a little bit because it was so brutal.
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"Somehow, this cancer has been spreading from clam to clam up the coast," Dr. Goff said.
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So they clam up about the dangers they face and sometimes report before being commissioned to do so.
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I don't mean to belittle it at all, but you start talking money, and people really clam up.
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Read more >>> Your inclination to clam up around money has another deleterious side effect: It can reduce your pay.
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"Heinrich was a volatile and unpredictable man who could want to talk one minute and then clam up," Luger said.
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I think I know the reason why people clam up when attempting to console a friend who is grieving: shame.
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But if D.C. is chosen, Amazon's arrival with tens of thousands of new jobs could further clam up a slow housing trajectory.
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But in the wake of the new Netflix documentary, Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator, people are starting to clam up about their former enthusiasm.
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Wrong. When people are uncertain about their partner's intentions in a relationship, they tend to clam up and not talk about things, Knopp says.
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If Congress uses its power simply to destroy the president, then of course any president is going to clam up and refuse to cooperate.
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Israelis are ready to compromise in pursuit of peace, but they tend to clam up when their "peace partners" are urging people to kill them.
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Scratch the surface, ask about the Mafia, and one of two things will happen: People will clam up and walk away or get really angry.
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The company is said to have a few hundred members in its chip operation, but press Apple executives for specifics, and they clam up fast.
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"Thanks to my therapist encouraging me to write that one letter, I no longer clam up when talking about my mom to others," she said.
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If they are comfortable speaking out about the mission of their companies when things are easy but clam up when things go sideways, well, that's just sad.
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Now, some executive branch employees who had received orders from the White House to clam up chose to comply with the House's request for testimony, as required by law.
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While she tends to clam up when asked to speak English, she's in no way a wallflower: she's an adventurous eater, has a rich belting voice, and is charmingly quirky.
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Women whose enjoyment of rough sex in porn I've discussed with them in the past clam up when I air that I'm writing about the diversity of women's porn preferences.
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And yet, even in a flood of emotions, there are perplexities of the human heart that may cause us to want to clam up or remain silent through such a trial.
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Those involved in legitimate cross-border trade clam up when talk turns to drug smuggling, a scourge that Trump has used to bash Mexico, and prefer to talk about lawful commerce.
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Whenever you go through emotional distress, it's reflected somehow, whether you get panic attacks, clam up and shut down, or, like me, feel deeply unsettled in the pit of your stomach.
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But while Calogero's father, Lorenzo (Richard H. Blake), assures him that he was right to clam up — "You did a good thing for a bad man," he tells him — Lorenzo (Mr.
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Trump's foreign policy team should instead continue to place behind-the-scenes pressure on China over poor sanctions enforcement, using private diplomatic avenues that won't cause Beijing to clam up on cooperation.
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So when he thinks I've said something curt, or if I think he's not doing his fair share of chores, then we're more likely to clam up than to disturb the calm.
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Prosecutors had called Credico to the witness stand to explain how Stone repeatedly used a reference to a "Godfather" film in urging him to clam up in response to inquiries from congressional investigators.
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The Warriors had come out "soft," Green said, and he felt that it was his fault — his fault, he said, because he had told his teammates to clam up and their play had suffered.
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Many of Xie's subjects are afraid to speak on camera, or clam up at his probing questions, underscoring just how dangerous and fraught bringing information to readers in China has the potential to be.
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They run from the inside of one shell to the other, and when clams sense a threat or find themselves out of water, they contract, causing the clam to, you know, [snapping] clam up.
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Hamas runs the strip as an increasingly corrupt and oppressive one-party state, with a strictly controlled press and a nervous populace who clam up or look over their shoulders before talking about the government.
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One woman was speaking to a CNN reporter Wednesday about why she likes Trump, when a couple came up to her and ordered her to clam up because journalists twist the truth and can't be trusted.
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This is similar to a well-known phenomenon in clams and related creatures: When these mollusks want to clam up, they lock the muscles that open and close their shells by altering the chemistry of certain muscle proteins.
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And although we may feel truly tempted by the idea of changing up our order, when we get to the front of the line and the barista inevitably asks, "The usual?" we tend clam up and abort the limited edition mission altogether.
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And as she maintains that she hasn't (she's been open about past procedures, so we're guessing she wouldn't clam up now), she explains that her narrower jawline is due to TMJ — or TMG as she calls it — and the resulting Botox treatment for it.
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As our reporting continued, we discovered it was common for hospitals, doctors and public health agencies to clam up when it came to talking about their troubles with resistant bugs, though they widely acknowledged the existence of the problem and even encouraged our efforts.
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There are two ways to be incredibly awkward in front of a major celebrity: Word vomit so much that their bodyguard has to intervene in order to save you from any further embarrassment, or completely clam up because, well, what would you even say to such a megastar?
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Watch More on VICE: Meet One of Britain's Most Notorious Reformed Criminals Lack of staffing—another pervasive issue that heavily contributes to the grim state of mental health services—may mean that mental health professionals only have time for group therapy instead of individual meetings, an arrangement that can force people to clam up.
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The fact that certain groups of people have to remain quiet about certain human conditions or things they struggle with, or the walls they come across — the fact that we as humans are not frank and honest about what it is to be human, the different dynamics, elements, and variations within the human race, that we have so many walls up causes us to clam up and causes us to be depressed and isolated.
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More successful are the scenes where Hap and Leonard are forced to reckon with the way that race ultimately defines their friendship in certain contexts, as when Leonard lets Hap know there's no way he'll let his white friend accompany him to a black part of town because the folks living there would clam up once they saw Hap's Caucasian face, or when he teases Hap about how he can afford to be carefree some of the time, simply by virtue of his skin color.
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Tridacna noae, also known as Noah’s Giant Clam or the Teardrop clam, is a species of giant saltwater clam. Up until recently, T. noae was mistaken as being part of the giant clam species Tridacna maxima, but is now known to be its own independent species. It has a broad distribution, but is mainly found in the Indo-Pacific. As with all giant clams, populations of T. noae, are declining due to human exploitation of flesh for consumption, shells, and as aquarium pets.
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