bite one's tongue »
An admonishment to someone who has said something unfeeling or harsh.
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bite one's tongue »
To forcibly prevent oneself from uttering a word.
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cat got someone's tongue »
Why are you not saying anything?.
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double-tongued »
Saying one thing to one person and something different to another; double talking; deceitful in speech.
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forked tongue »
The characteristic of deceptiveness; duplicity; untruthfulness.
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hold one's tongue »
To keep quiet; especially, to leave something unsaid.
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lick one's chops »
To use one's tongue to remove moistness from the sides of one's mouth, as when salivating or at the conclusion of a meal.
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on the tip of one's tongue »
Known but not quite remembered.
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sharp tongue »
The practice or characteristic of speaking to others in a harsh, critical, or insulting manner.
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silver-tongue »
The trait of being clever at speaking, often in a deceitful way.
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silver-tongued »
Eloquent and articulate.
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slip of the tongue »
A mistake in speech.
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speak with a forked tongue »
To speak deceptively; to be duplicitous or untruthful.
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throw dirt enough, and some will stick »
If enough allegations are made about someone or something, then even if they are all untrue, people's opinion of the person or thing will be diminished.1759, John Wesley, letter to John Downes, Rector of St. Michael's, Wood Street, read at Wesley Center Online at [1] on 14 Oct 06.I hope...that you are ignorant of the whole affair, and are so bold only because you are blind...And blind enough; so that you blunder on through thick and thin, bespattering all that come in your way, according to the old, laudable maxim, 'Throw dirt enough, and some will stick.'1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays, read at fullbooks.com on 14 Oct 06,But whatever harm a spiteful tongue could do them, he took care should be done. Only throw dirt enough, and some will stick.1864, John Henry Newman, Apologia Pro Vita Sua, Penguin Classics (1994), p. 10,Archbishop Whately used to say
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tongue-in-cheek »
Not intended seriously; jocular or humorous.
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