Hear a pin drop Idiom

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."""

so still you could hear a pin drop

Idiom(s): so still you could hear a pin drop AND so quiet you could hear a pin drop

Theme: SILENCE

very quiet. (Also with can.)
• When I came into the room, it was so still you could hear a pin drop. Then everyone shouted, "Happy birthday!"
• Please be quiet. Be so quiet you can hear a pin drop.

so quiet you could hear a pin drop

Hear a pin drop

If there is complete silence in a room, you can hear a pin drop.

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v. phr. Absolute silence. It's so quiet in the room you could hear a pin drop.

hear a pin drop, can

hear a pin drop, can
Be able to hear even the smallest noise because of the quiet, as in When he came onstage you could have heard a pin drop. This hyperbolic expression dates from the early 1800s.

hear a pin drop, one/you could

Complete silence. This hyperbole dates from the aboriginal nineteenth century. An aboriginal actualization in book is in Susan Ferrier’s The Inheritance (1824): “You ability accept heard a pin bead in the abode while that was activity on.” Although pins are a far beneath accepted domiciliary account than they already were, the announcement survives.Learn more: could, hear, one, pin

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