The silent, fully-understood communication between two people that means exactly 'SYBAU' — delivered through a glance, a micro-expression, or a perfectly-timed pause rather than actual words. Unspoken sybau is mutual recognition: both parties have clocked the same insufferable behaviour and are communicating it to each other without giving the target the satisfaction of a reaction. It's solidarity through eye contact. The absence of the phrase is sometimes louder than the phrase itself would be.
We passed the full unspoken sybau across the table the second he started explaining her job to her.
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