英语词汇“you could have heard a pin drop”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. you could have heard a pin drop (also †fall) and variants: indicating absolute silence or stillness.

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1737 tr. K. L. von Pöllnitz Amusemens de Spa II. 192 And yet the People of the Place are so us'd to it [sc. the noise], that they can hear a Pill fall.]

1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 11 Feb. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1678 They alone are so attended to, in that numerous and noisy assembly, that you might hear a pin fall while either of them is speaking.

1793 J. Williams Serio-comic & Admonitory Epist. 18 Fear and attention occupi'd them all;—Did a pin drop; you'd plainly hear it fall.

1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance ii. xiv. 156 You might have heard a pin drop in the house while that was going on.

1870 D. M. Mulock Fair France (1871) iv. 145 As the phrase is, ‘you might have heard a pin fall’.

1934 A. Christie Murder on Orient Express iii. ix. 246 Every eye was fixed upon him. In the stillness you could have heard a pin drop.

1995 P. McCabe Dead School (1996) 231 You could hear a pin drop as he stood by the window staring out at the chestnut tree with the sun in its leaves.

单词	you could have heard a pin drop
释义	> as lemmas you could have heard a pin drop (also †fall) b. you could have heard a pin drop (also †fall) and variants: indicating absolute silence or stillness. ΚΠ 1737 tr. K. L. von Pöllnitz Amusemens de Spa II. 192 And yet the People of the Place are so us'd to it [sc. the noise], that they can hear a Pill fall.] 1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 11 Feb. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1678 They alone are so attended to, in that numerous and noisy assembly, that you might hear a pin fall while either of them is speaking. 1793 J. Williams Serio-comic & Admonitory Epist. 18 Fear and attention occupi'd them all;—Did a pin drop; you'd plainly hear it fall. 1824 S. E. Ferrier Inheritance ii. xiv. 156 You might have heard a pin drop in the house while that was going on. 1870 D. M. Mulock Fair France (1871) iv. 145 As the phrase is, ‘you might have heard a pin fall’. 1934 A. Christie Murder on Orient Express iii. ix. 246 Every eye was fixed upon him. In the stillness you could have heard a pin drop. 1995 P. McCabe Dead School (1996) 231 You could hear a pin drop as he stood by the window staring out at the chestnut tree with the sun in its leaves. extracted from pinn.¹ < as lemmas
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