children should be seen and not heard

English

Alternative forms
  • a child should be seen and not heard

Proverb

children should be seen and not heard

  1. Children should behave well and be quiet, especially in the presence of adults.
    • 1978 December 9, Donald Farwell, “Our Angry Young Man”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 4:
      Until you can organize yourself and those who share your discontent, and compile and reconstruct some proposals for meeting the needs of gay youths, until you can present them in an adult (and I stress that word — ADULT) manner; lay low, my friend, for children should be seen and not heard.

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