Is the class pin-drop silent?
When the doors hissed open, we dropped silent in awe.
From the look and sound of their pin-drop silent locker room after their 20-13 defeatothethe Steelers, not many more.
At one point, during the deep soul number "Don't Give Up On Me", the instruments drop away completely to leave Burke reciting the lyrics alone, the place pin-drop silent as he whispers his testimony.
Most of the words he missed involved a dropped silent letter.
When he finally arrives literally everyone gasps and the room falls pin-drop silent: it's David Fucking Bowie.
The drummer attributed this to the acoustic tour leading the band to "shed some of the fear of incorporating mellower stuff with the heavy stuff", and Grohl added that "we wanted the stops to be pin-drop silent before exploding.
Other times, though, the act of remembering seemed almost physically painful: he would fall silent, drop his gaze, and shake his head.
They climb up and up (their "invisible mending," as the poet Ian Hamilton Finlay calls it), becoming specks easily lost against the cloudy sky, fluting out their intricate songs all the while, until they fall silent, and drop into hair-raising dives, pulling out just before the ground.
"I remember looking at Tracey some nights at these pin-drop-silent gigs, just thinking, I wish someone would go, 'Fuck off!'" says Watt.
Almost 40 years ago, a pudgy parodist took a lyric from a well-known patriotic song, dropped a silent W, changed a G to a D and put an O where an A was.
