Phrase thesaurus
Silence Phrases
63 phrases and expressions related to "silence".
Phrases
- 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
- Be like Dad, keep mum (WWII slogan)
- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool that to speak and remove all doubt
- Clam up
- Conspiracy of silence
- Conversation stopper
- Dead air
- Deafening silence
- Don't waste your breath
- End of story
- Gag reflex (The involuntary spasm caused by something touching the back of one's mouth)
- Hold your peace
- Hold your tongue
- 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)
- 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)
- Keep mum, she's not so dumb (WWII slogan)
- Lapse into silence
- Most men live lives of quiet desperation
- Mum's the word
- Mute witness
- No names: no packdrill
- On the quiet
- Order in the court
- Quiet before the storm
- Radio silence
- Running gag
- Silence is golden
- Silent Movie (Mel Brooks movie)
- Silent Night (Bing Crosby song)
- Silent partner
- Silent witness
- Speak when you are spoken to
- Speech is silver but silence is golden
- Strong, silent type
- 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 silence was deafening
- The silent majority
- The silent treatment
- Wall of silence
- You can't keep quiet about a Wispa (Cadbury's Wispa advertising slogan)
- You have the right to remain silent
- Zip your lip
Related
- Conspiracy of silence
- Deafening silence
- I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti (The Silence of the Lambs)
- Lapse into silence
- Radio silence
- Silence is golden
- Speech is silver but silence is golden
- The Silence Of The Lambs (Jodie Foster / Anthony Hopkins movie)
- The Sound Of Silence (Simon and Garfunkel song)
- The silence was deafening
- Wall of silence