crickets
suomi-englanti sanakirjacrickets englanniksi
(monikko) en|cricket.
(non-gloss definition): absolute silence; no communication.
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(quote-book) / "Do you maybe have any listings that are less? Like ... four million less?" I asked, semi-blushing. / "Four million or less? Sure!" / "No, no, no," I said. "Not four million or less. Four million ''less'' than five point three million, i.e., something in the one-to-one-and-a-half range." / "Oh." / Crickets.
(quote-journal)'', 15 September 2015, page 7|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/us/panel-studying-racial-divide-in-missouri-presents-a-blunt-picture-of-inequity.html|work=The New York Times|date=14 September 2015|passage=Maria Chapelle-Nadal, a Democratic state senator, said she feared that the commission's findings would be announced with great fanfare, "but then we're just going to hear crickets, crickets, crickets."
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(quote-book). You have more money, Betsy, than you will know how to spend; all your own. / (smallcaps). Oh, gracious! Won't I have as much dinner as I can eat every day! / (smallcaps). Yes, my love, you can have everything you wish for. / (smallcaps). Oh, crickets!
1902, (w), “The Fable of the Long-range Lover, the Lollypaloozer, and the Line of Talk”, in ''The Girl Proposition. A Bunch of He and She Fables'', New York, N.Y.: R. H. Russell, OCLC 776243245; republished Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Literature House, 1969, OCLC 695700303, page 9:
- "Oh Crickets! I seen you at the The-ayter one Night," she said. "I was there with Ollie Pozozzle of Minneapolis. Me and him come out just behind you.(nb..)"
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