tongue-tie
结舌,舌头打结,舌吻,结舌的
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Definitions
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- : impeded motion of the tongue caused especially by shortness of the frenum, which binds it to the floor of the mouth.
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tongue-tied, tongue-ty·ing.
- : to make tongue-tied.
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Examples
What could be more important, to make sure that side of things is right before we tie ourselves to someone forever?
In fact, Clark fell back first from her blows, losing his cap, tie, and badge in the melee.
After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
However, an article designed to act as a tie-in to the piece has been published as planned in the BBC magazine Radio Times.
Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
First of all, wrap a portion of damp newspaper round the roots, and then tie up with dry paper.