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| English | Russian |
| be the strong silent type | хранить суровое молчание (Technical) |
| fall silent for a while | призамолкнуть |
| fall silent gradually | позамолкнуть |
| fall silent out of fear | притихнуть от страха (Damirules) |
| have been silent long enough | намолчаться |
| he is silent as the grave | молчит, словно воды в рот набрал |
| in silent mode | на беззвучке (моб. / mobile phone (highly informal) denghu) |
| silent fart | шептун (In my childhood, we called a silent fart SBD: Silent But Deadly . In Russian, this is "пустить шептуна" (something like cutting one with a whisper) /// mberdy.2019) |
| the silent service | подводный флот |