"Hold your tongue" means don't just say what comes to mind - or think before you talk.
Imagine if you had a button on your lip - if you button it, you will keep your mouth closed and be quiet. The same if you hold your tongue between your fingers - it's not moving, so you're quiet. The person wants you to stop talking so much.
The idiom "tip of my tongue" refers to the feeling of almost remembering something but not being able to recall it fully. It conveys the sensation of the word or information being just out of reach in one's memory.
Nothing. The phrase is tongue in cheek, as if you were talking with your tongue twisted into your cheek instead of in the middle of your mouth. Tongue in cheek means you are not speaking seriously, but in jest.
In band it means to make notes sharper by "tounging" your instraument.
The correct idiom for the sentence would be "Martin had the answer on the tip of his tongue but Lucy said it first." This idiom means someone was about to provide an answer but another person beat them to it.
It means you refrained from saying something
When "the cat has your tongue", that means that you can't or aren't saying anything.
Someone with an oily tongue is a "smooth" talker who's trying to con you into doing something.
Imagine if you had a button on your lip - if you button it, you will keep your mouth closed and be quiet. The same if you hold your tongue between your fingers - it's not moving, so you're quiet. The person wants you to stop talking so much.
It means he speaks in a foreign language.
The idiom "tip of my tongue" refers to the feeling of almost remembering something but not being able to recall it fully. It conveys the sensation of the word or information being just out of reach in one's memory.
Nothing. The phrase is tongue in cheek, as if you were talking with your tongue twisted into your cheek instead of in the middle of your mouth. Tongue in cheek means you are not speaking seriously, but in jest.
To be tightfisted means that you hold on to your money. You're cheap.
To not speak. To remain silent.
This is not an idiom. When you see AS ___ AS ___ you have A Simile. The correct simile is "on the tip of his tongue."
In band it means to make notes sharper by "tounging" your instraument.
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