remain silent
Silence, a Chinese idiom, Pinyin is B ì K ǒ UW ú y á n, which means shut your mouth. It is used to describe the situation when you are noncommittal or inflexible about something, and you feel that you are wrong and have nothing to say. From the outlaws of the marsh.
The origin of Idioms
The 64th chapter of Water Margin by Shi Naian of Ming Dynasty: "Guan Sheng answered the ceremony in a hurry. He was speechless and helpless." The 15th chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in the Qing Dynasty: "Zhu Boru was speechless, so he had to stay away."
Idiom usage
Liu's father and daughter had nothing to say but stare at each other; Xiangzi was silent. Lao She's Camel Xiangzi
Analysis of Idioms
Synonym: speechless antonym: eloquence
remain silent
stick closely to the pattern given - yī yàng huà hú lú
heed only one side and you will be benighted - piān xìn zé àn
do a job made easy by outside help - shǔn fēng chuī huǒ
to eat in different ways -- different ways of aggression - jīng tūn cán shí
with scornful words and jeering smiles - xuè làng xiào ào
pressing the foot and whispering in the ear -- telling a secret - niè zú fù ěr