1. Home
2. Idioms
3. You could have heard a pin drop

You could have heard a pin drop

---

---

You could have heard a pin drop.

something that you say in order to describe a situation where there was complete silence, especially because people were very interested or very surprised by what was happening Margaret's ex-husband turned up at the wedding. Honestly, you could have heard a pin drop.

See know the half of it, have heard the last of

See also: could, drop, have, hear, pin