bite one's tongue
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I'd rather bite my tongue than tell my parents about my problem.
Другие идиомы:
- give (someone) a tongue-lashing
- set tongues wagging
- find one's tongue
- cause tongues to wag
- keep a civil tongue
- on the tip of one's tongue
- bite one's nails
- hold one's tongue
- slip of the tongue
- sharp tongue
- bite the dust
- bite the hand that feeds (someone)
- speak with a forked tongue
- bark is worse than one's bite
- bite the hand that feeds one