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No, though it is a figure of speech. The implication is that someone is being particularly quiet because a cat has stolen his or her tongue.
Many of these kind of sayings originated from military usage. This particular one may have come from the British Navy when a rating was given punishment for theft or insubordination. The Cat was a short whip that was used (cat-o-nine-tails) and the accused would be subject to a number of lashes corresponding to the severity of their crime. They would be asked, after the punishment, if they had anything to say. If there was no response or contrition, the questioner would announce that 'the cat had got their tongue'. Which meant either that they could not talk coherently or that they they verbally acknowledge they had done wrong to stop any further chastisement.
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