Common sayings and idioms mean 1. Silence 2. Ant on hot bricks 3. Two ants are tied to a thread.

1, released: Silent; Cicada: Cicada in late autumn. Don't talk like a cicada in late autumn. Metaphorically, they are afraid to speak because they are worried.

2, ants on hot bricks-running around (metaphor trapped in a difficult predicament, walking around, fidgeting.

3, it should be a thread tied to two grasshoppers instead of ants:

That is, "two grasshoppers tied to a rope."

It means that the fates of two people are linked together, and neither of them can live without the other.