not move a muscle
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And when the old Anfield songbook was dusted off in his honour early on, Gerrard did not move a muscle, standing drenched in a dark overcoat focussing fiercely on the action in front of him.
From BBC • Dec. 11, 2021
That night as I lay in my hotel bed, I did not move a muscle.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2012
He was a big guy, and I was frozen with fear and intimidation; I could not move a muscle.
From Salon • Aug. 22, 2012
He could not move a muscle to breathe and would have suffocated in a few minutes had the hospital not had one of the few artificial respirators in the Orient.
From Time Magazine Archive
You could go into a cupboard, close the door tight and not move a muscle, you just knew Miss Emily’s footsteps would stop outside and her voice would say: “All right. Out you come.”
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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