calf's tongue

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.

A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

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.