TODAY'S IDIOM: QUIET AS A MOUSE

"QUIET AS A MOUSE"

If you're as quiet as a mouse, you're very quiet.

Example: Nadia has been as quiet as a mouse in class since everyone laughed when she said the wrong thing.

Tan silencioso como un ratón.

Example sentences:

• I didn't hear you come in last night. You must have been as quiet as a mouse / No te escuché entrar anoche. Debiste haber sido tan silencioso como un ratón.

• Francine is being as quiet as a mouse. Are you sure she's in her room? / Francine es tan silencioso como un ratón. ¿Estás seguro que está en su habitación?

Additional examples:

• She was as quiet as a mouse. I didn't even know she'd come in.

• The little boy was quiet as a mouse as he moved around the kitchen.

 

 

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