clamming up

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• clam up
• happy as the day is long (as a clam)

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• Executives from Toshiba and Mitsubishi helped crowd the dining room, which claimed 18-foot ceilings, a robota grill and a glassed-in fish room, a cool pantry for the oysters, clams, live scallops and sea urchins that populated his menus.

• The bite-size morsel inside the shell is succulent and tender — no rubber-band chewiness like with a clam.

• In sandy tidewater areas, people wade along and feel clams on the bottom with their feet, then scoop them up and stow them in a mesh bag tied to their waist or suspended in a small floating tube.

• Most coastal states list where clams and mussels can be safely harvested, and those areas are subject to change.

• Akin to San Francisco’s signature cioppino, it’s an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach to seafood, with squidi, shrimp, clams, mussels and fish all thrown together into one delicious dish.

• You see this a lot when individuals who are accused of something decide to clam up, often under the advice of their attorney.

• Back in California, Zach finds that people from whom he might learn about the bombing either die, disappear, or clam up.

• All of which makes me wonder why Lindsey Graham and his cohort were so afraid the guy would clam up.

• Then I thought the non-celebrities would clam up because the cameras would make them nervous.

• “The Clam Castle was crowded with taxpayers,” Pete says in typical fashion.

• The recovery of the oyster, clam and other edible shell-fish is also a feature of the work which the Lake Company has in view.

• Its shores were long stretches of mud-flats, corrugated everywhere with thousands of clam-holes.

• Then I saw that the two halves of the clam-shell bucket were slightly open, just wide enough to let me squeeze in.