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📖 Определения и значения для слова tongue

📒 the soft part in the mouth that moves around, used for tasting, swallowing, speaking, etc.

  • He clicked his tongue to attract their attention.
  • She ran her tongue over her lips.
  • It's very rude to stick your tongue out at people.

📒 the tongue of some animals, cooked and eaten

  • a slice of ox tongue

📒 a language

  • Even when we speak the same tongue we do not always understand one another.
  • I tried speaking to her in her native tongue.
  • The market place was full of people speaking many strange tongues.

📒 a particular way of speaking

  • He has a sharp tongue.
  • (formal) I'll thank you to keep a civil tongue in your head (= speak politely).

📒 speaking in the way mentioned

  • sharp-tongued

📒 a long, narrow piece of leather under the laces on a shoe

📒 something that is long and narrow and like a tongue in shape

  • a tongue of flame

📒 to stop yourself from saying something that might upset somebody or cause an argument, although you want to speak

  • I didn't believe her explanation but I bit my tongue.

📒 said to somebody, especially a child, who stays silent when expected to speak, for example after being asked a question

  • What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?

📒 to be able to speak or express your opinion

📒 to pronounce a difficult word correctly

  • He was having trouble getting his tongue around my name.

📒 to talk too much, especially about things that are private

📒 to say nothing although you would like to give your opinion

📒 to make somebody talk more freely than usual

  • A bottle of wine had loosened Harry's tongue.

📒 if a word or name is on the tip of your tongue, you are sure that you know it but you cannot remember it

📒 to be easy to say or pronounce

  • It's not a name that exactly trips off the tongue, is it?

📒 to cause people to start talking/people are talking about somebody’s private affairs

  • His sudden resignation set tongues wagging.
  • This is a small island and tongues are beginning to wag.

📒 a small mistake in something that you write or say

  • Did I call you Richard? Sorry, Robert, just a slip of the tongue.
  • I didn't mean to say that—it was just a slip of the tongue.

📒 to be careful what you say in order not to offend somebody or make them angry

📒 if you say something with your tongue in your cheek, you are not being serious and mean it as a joke

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