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hear a pin drop, can
hear a pin drop, can
Be able to hear even the smallest noise because of the quiet, as in When he came onstage you could have heard a pin drop. This hyperbolic expression dates from the early 1800s.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
|---|
| Uilleag | | - | Irish |
| Khwaja | | - | Persian |
| Manaia | | - | Maori |
| Karcsi | | - | Hungarian |
| Naamah | | NAY-ə-mə (English), nah-ah-MAH (Jewish) | Biblical, Hebrew |
| Vince | | VINTS (English), VEEN-tse (Hungarian) | English, Hungarian |