Five other ways to say ‘shut up’

‘Shut’ can be described as a fertile verb based on the number of phrasal verbs it procreated. Among such are shut down, shut out, shut in and shut up. Of the four, ‘shut up’ is usually derogatory when directed at a person. It is thus not surprising that  hell broke loose between a former Minister of Education, Dr Oby Ezekwesili; and Senator Onyekachi Nwaebonyi last week when she asked him to ‘shut up’ during a Senate Committee…