Collocations for "tongue"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "tongue" in context.
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tongue
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.n
- stuck his tongue out at
- watch your tongue!
- [clicked, clucked] his tongue
- licked her lips with her tongue
- burned my tongue on the [tea, coffee]
- got his tongue pierced
- ouch, I bit my tongue
- [ate, bought] tongue of beef
- a dish of [cured, smoked] tongue
- speak the same tongue as
- [Spanish] is her native tongue
- spoke to her in her native tongue
- religious: was speaking in tongues
- the [shoe's, boot's] tongue
- a tongue of flame
- idiom: bit my tongue when she [said, suggested]
- idiom: it's on the tip of my tongue (but)
- idiom: [it, the name] rolls (right) off the tongue
- idiom: has the cat got your tongue?
- idiom: very tongue in cheek
- the [horse, cat] tongued its [mane, hair]
- tongued [the food, a biscuit, a cupcake]
- tongue [a note, an instrument, a saxophone]
- the [land, area, hill] tongues into the [sea, ocean, river]
- sexually explicit, slang, UK: he tongued her
- sexually explicit, slang, UK: tonguing [all night, on the bench, in the back row]
- has a tongue [piercing, ring]
- say a tongue twister
- a tongue-in-cheek [reply, comment]
'tongue' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):