even crows and sparrows hold peace and keep silence

even crows and sparrows hold peace and keep silence

It's a Chinese idiom, y ā m ò Qu è J ì ng, which means that even the crows and sparrows don't call, and it doesn't sound at all. It comes from three quatrains.

The origin of Idioms

Su Shi of Song Dynasty wrote three quatrains: "when the wind blows and the rain comes into the appendix, the black magpie is silent and the night comes to the appendix."

Idiom usage

It can be used as predicate, attributive and adverbial. When teacher he finished, the three of them poked under the street lamp in silence. Chapter five of Chen Jiangong's seeking pleasure chapter two and seven of heroes and Heroines: "just now when you are talking, my two eldest brothers, my son-in-law and my eldest nephew are all in this wing room, silent birds and quiet children are eating in their stomachs." It is also called "Silence". Zhou Libo's "great changes in the countryside" part 3: "in the conference room, it's very quiet. Only the little white bell makes a regular sound."