سے متعلق مرکب افعال 'QUIET'
1. (as) quiet as the grave: Totally silent, especially as produces an ominous or foreboding effect.
(پورے طور پر خاموش، بالخصوص جس سے نحوست یا بدشگونی کے اثر کا پتہ چلے)
E.g. I hate staying in my grandma's house. It gets as quiet as the grave at nighttime, and it really creeps me out.
2. So quiet you could hear a pin drop: Extremely quiet and still.
(انتہائی خاموش اور ساکن۔)
E.g. After the boss's outburst, the meeting room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
3. On the quiet (informal): secretly
(رازدارانہ طور پر؛ چپکے سے)
E.g. His marriage broke up when his wife found out he'd been seeing someone else on the quiet.
4. Better keep still about it: Better keep quiet
about it
(بہتر ہے کہ اس کے بارے میں خاموش رہیں)
A particular person ought not to tell about or discuss something. (The someone can stand for any person's name, any pronoun, or even the word someone meaning "you-know-who." If there is no Someone had, the phrase is a mild admonition to keep quiet about something.)E.g. Mary: I saw you with Bill last night.
Jane: You'd better keep quiet about it.
5. Let's go somewhere where it's (more) quiet: Let us continue our conversation where there is less noise or where we will not be disturbed.
(چلو اپنی بات چیت وہاں جاری رکھیں جہاں کم شوروغل ہے یا جہاں ہمیں خلل نہیں پڑے گا۔)
E.g. Tom: Hi, Mary. It's sure crowded here. Mary: Yes, let's go somewhere where it's quiet. Bill: We need to talk. Sally: Yes, we do. Let's go somewhere where it's more quiet.
6. Quiet down: to become quiet; to become less noisy.
(کم شوروغل والا ہونا۔)
E.g. Ask them to quiet down.
7. Be as quiet as a mouse: to be very quiet
(بہت خاموش ہونا)
E.g. She was as quiet as a mouse. I didn't even know she'd come in.