Quiet Phrases

Phrases

• A still small voice
• After a storm comes a calm
• Air Power is Peace Power (Lockheed Aircraft advertising slogan)
• All Quiet On The Western Front (Erich Maria Remarque book and WWII movie)
• Anything for a quiet life
• As quiet as a mouse
• As silent as the grave
• At peace
• At sixty miles an hour the loudest noise in the new Rolls-Royce comes from the electric clock (Rolls Royce advertising slogan)
• At the dead of night
• Basta la musica
• Be still my beating heart
• Belt up
• Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
• Bite your lip
• Bite your tongue
• Born 1820 - Still going strong (Johnny Walker Black Whiskey advertising slogan)
• Breach of the peace
• Break-out space
• Button your lip
• Calm abiding
• Calm before the storm
• Calm down
• Calm down, calm down (A catchphrase from Harry Enfield In The Scousers)
• Can it
• Cat got your tongue?
• Cheese it
• Chicago piano
• Children should be seen and not heard
• Clam up
• Conspiracy of silence
• Conversation stopper
• Cool, calm and collected
• Cut the cackle
• Dead of night
• Dead of winter
• Deafening silence
• Deep in thought
• Do you know the piano's on my foot?
• Don't go there
• Don't make a peep
• Don't shoot the piano player
• Dry up
• Ear popping (a sound that is loud or that catches the attention)
• Easter Island (tourist attraction in the Pacific Ocean)
• For crying out loud
• Gagging order
• Gentle Jesus, meek and mild
• Give Peace A Chance (John Lennon song)
• He will never play the piano again
• Hold your peace
• Hush a bye
• Hush it up
• Hush money
• Hush puppies
• Hush up
• I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti (The Silence of the Lambs)
• I'm Still Standing (Elton John song)
• In The Still Of The Night (Frank Sinatra song)
• Inner peace
• Is there honey still for tea?
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It was the night before Christmas and all round the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse
• Keep a lid on it
• Keep calm and carry on
• Keep it down
• Keep schtum
• Keep the peace
• Keep your own counsel
• Keep yourself to yourself
• Lapse into silence
• Like a thief in the night
• Lose your tongue
• Lost for words
• Loud and clear
• Loud enough to waken the dead
• Loud mouth
• Loud mouthed
• Low profile
• Most men live lives of quiet desperation
• Mum's the word
• Mute witness
• Nary, a word
• No justice, no peace
• No news is good news
• No peace for the wicked
• Not with a bang but with a whimper
• Off peak
• Off season
• On the QT
• On the quiet
• Out loud
• Passive aggressive
• Peace at last
• Peace be with you
• Peace dividend
• Peace in our time
• Peace of mind
• Pipe down
• Put a cork in it
• Put a sock in it
• Quiet before the storm
• Radio silence
• Rest in peace
• Save it
• Say It Loud I'm Black And I'm Proud (James Brown song)
• Say it loud and say it proud
• Shut your cake hole
• Shut your face
• Shut your pie hole
• Shut your trap
• Silence is golden
• Silent Movie (Mel Brooks movie)
• Silent Night (Bing Crosby song)
• Silent partner
• Silent witness
• Simple life
• Sit tight
• Speak when you are spoken to
• Speech is silver but silence is golden
• Still Crazy After All These Years (Paul Simon song)
• Still life (a form of painting in which inanimate objects are the subject)
• Still the One (ABC advertising slogan)
• Still waters run deep
• Strong, silent type
• The Day the Earth Stood Still (Michael Rennie movie)
• The Prince of peace
• The Quiet Man (Nickname of John Ruiz)
• The Silence Of The Lambs (Jodie Foster / Anthony Hopkins movie)
• The Sound Of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel song)
• The body is still warm
• The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still (The Beatles song lyric)
• The meek shall inherit the earth
• The peace of God that passeth all understanding
• The silence was deafening
• The silent majority
• The silent treatment
• The still small voice of God
• The toughest job you'll ever love (United States Peace Corps advertising slogan)
• The witching hour
• There's many a good tune played on an old piano
• Tight lipped
• Under your breath
• Wall of silence
• War and Peace (Leo Tolstoy book)
• Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? (Carole King song)
• World peace
• Wrap up
• You can't keep quiet about a Wispa (Cadbury's Wispa advertising slogan)
• You could have heard a pin drop
• You have the right to remain silent
• Zip it
• Zip your lip