still as death

still as death
*still as death
Cliché immobile; completely still. (The reference to death gives this expression ominous connotations. *Also: as \still as death.) •

George sat as still as death all afternoon.

When the storm was over, everything was suddenly still as death.


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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