Tongue Phrases

Phrases

• A lick of paint
• Acid tongue
• All mouth and trousers
• All talk
• All talk and no trousers
• Bad taste in the mouth
• Barnyard language
• Bite your tongue
• Body language
• Born with a silver spoon in his mouth
• Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth
• Careless talk costs lives (WWII slogan)
• Cat got your tongue?
• Chalk and talk
• Come and talk to the listening bank (Midland Bank advertising slogan)
• Do you kiss your mother with that mouth
• Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
• Down in the mouth
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Fighting talk
• Foam at the mouth
• Foot in mouth
• Foul language
• French kiss
• Garbage mouth
• Good talk saves the food
• Hand to mouth
• Heart to heart talk
• Hold your tongue
• I don't wanna talk (ABBA lyric)
• I want to talk to the organ grinder not the monkey
• Idle talk
• It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it (Maurice Switzer quotation)
• It's good to talk (British Telecom advertising slogan)
• Jive talk
• Keep a civil tongue in your head
• Keep your mouth shut
• Language barrier
• Leaves a bad taste in the mouth
• Let's Talk About Love (Celine Dion album)
• Lick and a promise
• Lick into shape
• Lick someone's boots
• Lick your lips
• Lick your wounds
• Loose talk
• Lose your tongue
• Loud mouth
• M&Ms melt in your mouth, not in your hand (M&Ms chocolate advertising slogan)
• Made to make your mouth water (Opal Fruits advertising slogan)
• Melts in the mouth
• Mind your language
• Money doesn't talk, it swears
• Mother tongue
• Mouth breather
• Mouth off
• Mouth to mouth
• Nasty taste in the mouth
• Never look a gift horse in the mouth
• Nil by mouth
• North and south (Cockney rhyming slang for mouth)
• On the tip of my tongue
• Open your big mouth
• Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper
• Pillow talk
• Potty mouth
• Potty mouth (a foul mouthed person)

• Put words into someone's mouth
• Put your foot in your mouth
• Put your head into the lion's mouth
• Put your money where your mouth is
• Rabbit and pork (Cockney rhyming slang for talk)
• Red lorry yellow lorry
• Roll off the tongue
• Run off at the mouth
• Set tongues wagging
• Sharp tongue
• Shoot straight (to talk or deal honestly)
• Shoot your mouth off
• Silver tongued (eloquent or persuasive manner of speech)
• Slip of the tongue
• Smooth talk
• Speak in tongues
• Speak the same language
• Straight from the horse's mouth
• Take the bread out of someone's mouth
• Take the words out of my mouth
• Talk a blue streak
• Talk a good game
• Talk dirty
• Talk down to
• Talk in riddles
• Talk is cheap
• Talk it up
• Talk me through it
• Talk of the Devil
• Talk of the Devil, and he is bound to appear
• Talk offline
• Talk out of school
• Talk out of your ass
• Talk over your head
• Talk shop
• Talk the hind legs off a donkey
• Talk the talk
• Talk through your hat
• Talk to Ralph on the big white phone
• Talk to me, baby
• Talk to the hand
• Talk turkey
• Talk tweed
• The Hick from French Lick (Nickname of Larry Bird)
• The gift of tongues
• The milk chocolate melts in your mouth, not in your hand (M&M advertising slogan)
• The talk of the town
• The time has come the walrus said to talk of many things
• The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things, Carroll)
• To save and invest, talk to Natwest (Natwest Bank advertising slogan)
• Toilet mouth (a foul mouthed person)
• Tongue and groove
• Tongue in cheek
• Tongue lashing
• Tongue tied
• Tongue twister
• Trash talk
• Turn to ashes in your mouth
• Walk the talk
• Walk the walk, talk the talk
• Wash your mouth out with soap and water
• Watch your language
• Watch your mouth
• We Need To Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver book)
• We have ways of making you talk
• White man speak with forked tongue
• Word of mouth
• You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, It Must Have Been Whilst You Were Kissing Me (Meatloaf song)

Related

• Acid tongue
• Bite your tongue
• Cat got your tongue?
• Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog
• Hold your tongue
• Keep a civil tongue in your head
• Lose your tongue
• Mother tongue
• On the tip of my tongue
• Roll off the tongue
• Sharp tongue
• Slip of the tongue
• Tongue and groove
• Tongue in cheek
• Tongue lashing
• Tongue tied
• Tongue twister
• White man speak with forked tongue