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silence is golden

proverb

Etymology

Calque of Latin silentium est aureum (“silence is golden”).

Definitions

  1. Peace and quiet have great value.

    • "[I] adore good music, I hate bad, and I despise mediocre. Silence is golden, indeed, compared with poor music."

  2. Often the best choice is to say nothing.

    • But I have spoken long enough. There are times when silence is golden, and one of those times is at hand.
    • I shouldn't lower myself to respond to the personal attacks on me, but silence, as the current scandal plaguing the federal administration shows, isn't golden.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for silence is golden. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA