"Loulou wouldn't keep quiet"?
I was reading an English translation of "l'aveugle", a short story by Guy de Maupassant, and I encountered this sentence there:
"Loulou wouldn't keep quiet."
What does it mean? Is that an idiom I don't know, or it's something about Loulou who is a person?

Question

"Loulou wouldn't keep quiet"?
I was reading an English translation of "l'aveugle", a short story by Guy de Maupassant, and I encountered this sentence there:
"Loulou wouldn't keep quiet."
What does it mean? Is that an idiom I don't know, or it's something about Loulou who is a person?

Answer

"Loulou wouldn't keep quiet" just means that Loulou would not remain silent. "To keep + adjective" means "to remain, to stay + adjective."

For example, you can also say "Paul wouldn't keep still" --> Paul is restless, and continues to move around and does not remain still.

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