英语词汇you could have heard a pin drop的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	you could have heard a pin drop
词源	you could have heard a pin drop. An expression synony- mous with complete silence. The saying probably dates back to at least the late 18th century. Pin-drop silence is a synonym. “A pin-drop silence strikes o’er the place” Leigh Hunt wrote in The Story of Rimini (1816).
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