- Fuente de la expresión
- Concise Dictionary of English Combined
- Estructura completa
- to be as dumb as a mouse
- Variantes
- to be as dumb as [a stick, a sock, a bag of rocks, a box of rocks, a statue, any
oyster, a stone]
- Contexto
- Harry never would venture to meddle with George’s books, and
would sit as dumb as a mouse at the lidgings while his brother was studying.
- Tipo de fuente
- Libro
- Autor
- William Makepeace Thackeray
- Título de la fuente
- The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century
- Año
- 1859
- Web
- https://books.google.es/books?id=Kuc9AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA256&dq=%22dumb+as+a+mous e%22&hl=es&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihkJyOsrntAhUEahQKHXRhAu84ChDoATADegQIBhAC #v=onepage&q=%22dumb%20as%20a%20mouse%22&f=false
- Idioma
- English
- Nivel de uso
- Popular/Familiar/Coloquial
- Marca dialectal
- General
- Frecuencia
- Raro