How would you describe silence outside the school gates, before the school is about to finish?

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I'd call it a pregnant silence.
why pregnant?
is it because the school will soon have all children coming out?
Yep! :-)

http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/pregnant
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