set tongues wagging
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How to use set tongues wagging in a sentence
Inquiries were made throughout the parish, which only served to set tongues wagging more than ever.
The Fourth Watch | H. A. CodyAphrodite could do what she chose and no one worried; but an indiscretion of Artemis set tongues wagging.
The Mountebank | William J. LockeThomas Haydon was the last man in the world to set tongues wagging and to give anxiety to friends by such a trick.
Jack Haydon's Quest | John FinnemoreThis answer set tongues wagging again, and revived the opinion that I was a downright Phalaris.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo GozziThe mere fact that she had been in Hal's runabout was enough to set tongues wagging.
The Clarion | Samuel Hopkins Adams
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