silent majority

silent majority
{n.}, {informal} The large majority of people who, unlike the militants, do not make their political and social views known by marching and demonstrating and who, presumably, can swing an election one way or the other. * /Sidney Miltner is a member of the silent majority./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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