Phrase thesaurus
Quiet Phrases
Idioms for silence, plus 153 phrases and expressions related to "quiet".
Idioms for silence
- 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