Usually means: Calm surface, profound depths underneath.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. still waters run deep: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. still waters run deep: Merriam-Webster
  3. still waters run deep: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Still waters run deep: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. still waters run deep: Wiktionary
  6. Still waters run deep: Dictionary.com
  7. Still Waters Run Deep (Four Tops album), Still Waters Run Deep (album), Still Waters Run Deep (fable), Still Waters Run Deep (film), Still waters run deep (disambiguation), Still waters run deep: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Still Waters Run Deep: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  9. Still Waters Run Deep: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. still waters run deep: Idioms

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▸ noun:  a proverb of Latin origin now commonly taken to mean that a placid exterior hides a passionate or subtle nature.
▸ noun:  a proverb of Latin origin.


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