"on aurait pu entendre une mouche voler" meaning in All languages combined

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Phrase [Français]

IPA: \ɔ̃n.ɔ.ʁɛ.py.ɑ̃.tɑ̃dʁ.yn.muʃ.vɔ.le\
  1. Cette phrase s’emploie pour parler d’un silence absolu.
    Sense id: fr-on_aurait_pu_entendre_une_mouche_voler-fr-phrase-2YLjj6h2 Categories (other): Exemples en français
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations: we could have heard a pin drop (Anglais), ni huze ni muze (Wallon)
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          "ref": "Erckmann-Chatrian, Histoire d’un conscrit de 1813, J. Hetzel, 1864",
          "text": "Le sergent de ville lisait lentement, personne ne soufflait mot ; la vieille, qui ne comprenait pas le français, écoutait comme les autres. On aurait entendu voler une mouche."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Jerry Epstein, A. Teste du Bailler, Charlie Chaplin: portrait inédit d’un vagabond, 1994",
          "text": "Sur le plateau, on aurait pu entendre une mouche voler, pendant qu’il restait là, étendu à plat ventre."
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      "lang": "Anglais",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "we could have heard a pin drop"
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      "lang_code": "wa",
      "word": "ni huze ni muze"
    }
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  "word": "on aurait pu entendre une mouche voler"
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        },
        {
          "ref": "Jerry Epstein, A. Teste du Bailler, Charlie Chaplin: portrait inédit d’un vagabond, 1994",
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      "word": "we could have heard a pin drop"
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