you could hear a pin drop

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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

• you could hear a pin drop — mainly spoken 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 …   English 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

• 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 — v. phr. Absolute silence. It s so quiet in the room you could hear a pin drop …   Словарь американских идиом

• hear — W1S1 [hıə US hır] v past tense and past participle heard [hə:d US hə:rd] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(hear sounds/words etc)¦ 2¦(listen to somebody/something)¦ 3¦(be told something)¦ 4¦(in court)¦ 5 have heard of somebody/something 6 not hear the last of somebody… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• hear — verb past tense and past participle heard /h:d/ 1 HEAR SOUNDS/WORDS ETC (intransitive, transitive not in progressive) to know that a sound is being made, using your ears: Did you hear that noise? | I called his name, but he pretended not to hear …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• pin — pin1 S3 [pın] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(for joining/fastening)¦ 2¦(jewellery)¦ 3¦(electrical)¦ 4¦(bowling)¦ 5 you could hear a pin drop 6¦(part of bomb)¦ 7¦(golf)¦ 8 for two pins I d ... 9 pins ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• pin — 1 noun (C) 1 FOR CLOTH a short thin piece of metal with a sharp point at one end, used especially for fastening together pieces of cloth while making clothes 2 JEWELLERY a) AmE an attractively shaped piece of metal, sometimes containing jewels,… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English