What Does “take the fifth” mean?
Definition:
To decline to answer, especially on grounds that it might be incriminating.
The origin of the phrase dates back to the Fifth Amendment in the Bill of Rights, which says that a person can’t
“be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself.”
Example(s)
If you ask me who stole the wallet, I will simply take the fifth.
This idiom is in the numbers category.
