- hear\ a\ pin\ drop
- v. phr.Absolute silence.
It's so quiet in the room you could hear a pin drop.
Словарь американских идиом. — СПб., Изд-во "Лань". Оригинал: A.Маккей, М.Т.Боткер, Дж.И.Гейтс. 1997.
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
hear a pin drop — {v. phr.} Absolute silence. * /It s so quiet in the room you could hear a pin drop./ … Dictionary of American idioms
hear a pin drop — {v. phr.} Absolute silence. * /It s so quiet in the room you could hear a pin drop./ … Dictionary of American idioms
hear a pin drop — If there is complete silence in a room, you can hear a pin drop. (Dorking School Dictionary) … English Idioms & idiomatic expressions
Hear a pin drop — If there is complete silence in a room, you can hear a pin drop … Dictionary of English idioms
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
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
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
hear a pin drop — used to describe absolute silence … Useful english dictionary
