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means the people talked alot

If your tongue "wags" or flaps up and down, you are talking. This means that people were passing rumors around, talking about something that someone had done.

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The idiom "tongues were wagging" means that there was a lot of gossip or conversation happening, often about a particular person or topic. It implies that people were talking about something, often in a lively or scandalous manner.

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