hear\ a\ pin\ drop

hear\ a\ pin\ drop
v. phr.
Absolute silence.

It's so quiet in the room you could hear a pin drop.


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  • hear a pin drop — If there is complete silence in a room, you can hear a pin drop …   The small dictionary of idiomes

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  • you could hear a pin drop — mainly spoken phrase used for emphasizing how quiet a place is when no one is talking As the audience waited for him to speak, you could have heard a pin drop. Thesaurus: silent and silencesynonym describing loud and noisy soundssynonym… …   Useful english dictionary

  • you could hear a pin drop — (you) could hear a pin drop to be extremely quiet. The new sound proof lab is so well designed, you can hear a pin drop. You could have heard a pin drop for a full minute after every song and then the audience would clap wildly …   New idioms dictionary

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  • so quiet you can hear a pin drop — very quiet, very still    The teacher said, Class, try to be so quiet you can hear a pin drop …   English idioms

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