Pull The Communication Cord

[birdie73]

Please help this is my last one !!!!!
72 Put your hands on lower face and stop talking (4,4,3)
Thanks in anticipation.

[mike11111]

Shut your gob.

[birdie73]

Thank you mike11111, had seen that answer previously but maybe my brain doesn't work too well, could not see the relevance to communications, perhaps you can help me.

[mike11111]

I'm not sure that that is really the answer, but it just seems to fit the letter requirements. Shut your gob, i.e. cover your mouth, breaks off oral communication.

[birdie73]

Thanks mike11111 I'm not convinced of this answer I did find a clue which said to find a synonym for chin + to use the word ones not your, can't work that out.
Thanks for your interest & help.

[Fibonacci]

how about "hold ones jaw" ? - which according to my dict. mean to stop talking.

[birdie73]

Thank you Fibonacci for your help it sounds good.

[Famous5]

The dilemma her is if the answer is Hold YOUR jaw (question says Put YOUR hands on lower face...), which is therefore gramatically correct here, or Hold ONE'S jaw, which is what Chambers says.

Going much against my old English teacher, I've gone with Chambers, but I hope that the setter will allow either

[birdie73]

Thank you Famous5. Sorry not to reply before, but agree with you I think it is Hold one's jaw, as you say that is what is said in Chambers.