Loose Lips: Difference between revisions

{{trope|wppage=Loose lips sink ships}}

 

{{quote|''Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.''|'''[[Benjamin Franklin]]'''}}

 

When someone gives away sensitive information unintentionally because they can't keep it to themselves. The [[Trope Namer]] is the famous slogan from [[World War II]] "Loose Lips Sink Ships".

 

When this is subverted, it can become [[Feed the Mole]].

 

* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'' has the main character asking a few too many people where the detective's office is, allowing the bad guys to find it.

* ''[[The Sum of All Fears]]'' movie has one nuclear scientist's mom giving away some information to Clark that allows him to find the terrorist's nuclear production area.

* Parodied in a flashback in ''[[Airplane!]]'' The hero tells his girlfriend that he's going to be sent out on a mission soon. He then goes on to mention exactly where he's going, what he's going to be bombing, what time of day they'll be attacking, how high they'll be flying, and what direction they'll be coming in from. But he refuses to give her a rough estimate of when he'll be back from the mission, because that's classified.

 

== Literature ==

* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''

 

== Live-Action TV ==

* An episode of ''[[ER]]'' has two nurses talking about the two children of a patient who had been in an accident comforting each other... which ended up leading to [[Brother-Sister Incest]]. Unfortunately, they unknowingly were walking past the patient's husband, leading to a near-shooting incident (the father managed to calm himself down and came clean about what he had nearly done). The doctors were not pleased about the violation of Patient-Doctor Confidentiality and the incident it nearly caused.

* Barbra Jean from ''[[Reba]]'' has this reputation, and for good reason. Throughout the series, she's blabbed out things quite a few times, such as telling Reba's eldest daughter and son-in-law about her youngest daughter's decision to move in with Reba's ex-husband—even after promising not to blab.

 

== New Media ==

* [[The Other Wiki]] has [[wikipedia:Wikipedia:Wikipedia is in the real world|an entry]] explaining the dangers of putting sensitive information (or at least, information that can come back to bite you in the ass) on Wikipedia.

 

== Video Games ==

 

== Web Original ==

 

== Western Animation ==

* The ''[[Private Snafu]]'' short "Spies": Snafu brags about how he'll never tell the secret information he knows, but he carelessly drops hints which are eagerly picked up by hidden spies.

 

== Real Life ==

 

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