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civil tongue
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see keep a civil tongue in one's head .Discover More
Example Sentences
"Well, I warn you to keep your distance so far as I am concerned and keep a civil tongue in your head," said Dick.
I've never changed and if with God's help I had a civil tongue then, I've a civil tongue now.
If thou canst not keep a civil tongue in thy head, I'll bring a thousand plagues upon thee, thou umnannerly boy.
You keep a civil tongue in that head of yours, or I will have in some one to finish those portraits you have made of me!'
If you dont keep a civil tongue in your head well see that youre put out of this carnival.
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