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Also, still as a mouse . Silent, without noise, as in She sneaked into the house, quiet as a mouse , or When he heard the news he was still as a mouse . The first of these similes dates from the mid-1500s, the second from the 1300s.Advertisement
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Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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