tongue-in-cheek

The lack of a gun is not likely to be a major problem for close-in air-to-air dogfights against other jets.

“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.

Do not the widow's tears run down the cheek, and her cry against him that causeth them to fall?

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.

He has told me that their society produced on him the effect of the cool hands of saints against his cheek.