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• You could have heard a pin drop. — something that you say in order to describe a situation where there was complete silence, especially because people were very interested or very surprised by what was happening. Margaret s ex husband turned up at the wedding. Honestly, you could… …   New idioms dictionary

• 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

• 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

• pin — [[t]pɪ̱n[/t]] ♦♦♦ pins, pinning, pinned 1) N COUNT Pins are very small thin pointed pieces of metal. They are used in sewing to fasten pieces of material together until they have been sewn. ...needles and pins... Use pins to keep the braid in… …   English dictionary

• 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

• hear — [[t]hɜ͟ː(r)d[/t]] ♦ hears, hearing, heard 1) VERB When you hear a sound, you become aware of it through your ears. [V n] She heard no further sounds... [V n] The trumpet can be heard all over their house... [ …   English dictionary

• Nikita Khrushchev — Khrushchev redirects here. For other people with this surname, see Khrushchev (surname). Nikita Khrushchev Никита Хрущёв …   Wikipedia

• Hugh Gibson — Hugh S. Gibson (August 16, 1883 – December 12, 1954), Career diplomat and “career humanitarian” ( New York Times , December 13, 1954), was actively involved in disarmament talks from 1925 to 1932, and (together with such colleagues as ambassadors …   Wikipedia