los muertos no hablan

(Sp. model spelled same, [losmwértosnóáplan] consisting of the masculine plural definite article los and muertos, plural of muerto 'dead person, corpse' < Latin mortuus, perfective participle of morlre 'to die' plus adverb no, and hablan, third person singular conjugation of hablar 'to speak' < Vulgar Latin fabulare 'to converse; to talk')

   Correctly translated by Hendrickson as "dead men don't talk." Hen-drickson notes that the expression in English is likely to be a calque from Spanish. Slatta (personal communciation) provides the English version "dead men tell no tales" as an equivalent. Another common English saying "three can keep a secret if two of them are dead" conveys essentially the same message.