ox-tongue partisan

[ oks-tuhng ]

/ ˈɒksˌtʌŋ /

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noun

a shafted weapon having a long, wide, tapering blade.

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It was a rare moment of bipartisan unity in partisan Washington.
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After the release of the trailer for the special last week, TLC received a requisite and perhaps well-deserved tongue-lashing.
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This is a job for independent committees, like Bowles-Simpson, not a partisan slugfest.
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Abramson, biting her tongue, was widely portrayed in rival outlets as classily above the fray.
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The first meeting featured multiple speakers deeply rooted in a partisan agenda.
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“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
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Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
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The flute and the psaltery make a sweet melody, but a pleasant tongue is above them both.
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Each sentence came as if torn piecemeal from his unwilling tongue; short, jerky phrases, conceived in pain and delivered in agony.
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If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.
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