phrase
ćuti kao zaliven
keeps mum, stays stubbornly silent (literally ‘as if sealed shut’)
молчит как рыба, молчит как воды в рот набрал (буквально «запаянный»)
With stress
ćútī kȁo zàliven
In Cyrillic
ћути као заливен
Examples from the lessons
Onda ćuti kao zaliven i nemoj praviti od muve slona.
Тогда молчи как рыба и не делай из мухи слона.
Idioms and sayingsIn phrasebooks
Next to it in the phrasebook
- kȁolike, as (comparing); as, in the role of (kao student, as a student…
- nȅgobut rather (after a negative); than (bigger than I am; opening a…
- ȍdfrom; of; than (+ Gen.: bigger than me)
- pȍpūtlike, resembling (+ Gen.; more bookish than kao)
- nȅgo štȍthan (before a clause; od cannot be used here)
- slȉčansimilar (na + Acc.)
- rázlikovati seto differ, to be different (od + Gen.)
- za rȁzliku odunlike, in contrast to (+ genitive)
- ȉsto kȁothe same as, just like (same as before)
- vȉšē nȅgomore than (more than enough)