set tongues wagging

Idioms and Phrases

see tongues wag .

Example Sentences

Inquiries were made throughout the parish, which only served to set tongues wagging more than ever.

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Aphrodite could do what she chose and no one worried; but an indiscretion of Artemis set tongues wagging.

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Thomas Haydon was the last man in the world to set tongues wagging and to give anxiety to friends by such a trick.

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This answer set tongues wagging again, and revived the opinion that I was a downright Phalaris.

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The mere fact that she had been in Hal's runabout was enough to set tongues wagging.

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