2.be (like) a morgueto be a place that is very quiet or dull – used humorously 像太平间〔指某地方死气沉沉;幽默用法〕
Examples from the Corpus
morgue• So many people had left that the place was like a morgue.• The bodies were to be transferred to a morgue, where relatives could come and help identify them.• In the Huatulco morgue, the dead men remainunidentified, and their feet provide only crypticclues about the rebels.• Hospital official Komaruddin Sukhemi said at least 51 bodies had been brought to the localmorgue.• Whatever Deborah would deserve, that morgue was not the place for her.• The detailedburialparty will then convey the body to the morgue for subsequent burial.• A body wrapped in a plasticbag is loaded on to a lorry and taken off to the morgue.
Originmorgue
(1800-1900)FrenchMorgue, name of a morgue in Paris