1. oil one's tongue : 奉承, 谄媚；
2. hold one's tongue : 住嘴, 不开口, 缄默；
3. a silver tongue : 流利的口才；
4. wag one's tongue : 唠叨不休；
5. find one's tongue : (吓得说不出话以后)能开口了；
名词
1. 舌;舌头
Your tongue is the soft movable part inside your mouth which you use for tasting, eating, and speaking.
2. 说话能力;说话方式
You can use tongue to refer to the kind of things that a person says.
3. 语言
A tongue is a language.
4. (烹制后通常作为冷盘的)牛舌，羊舌
Tongue is the cooked tongue of an ox or sheep. It is usually eaten cold.
5. 鞋舌
The tongue of a shoe or boot is the piece of leather which is underneath the laces.
6. 舌状物;火舌;伸入水中的狭长陆地
A tongue of something such as fire or land is a long thin piece of it.
7. 无诚意的;虚情假意的
A tongue-in-cheek remark or attitude is not serious, although it may seem to be.
8. 一言不发;保持缄默
If you hold your tongue, you do not say anything even though you might want to or be expected to, because it is the wrong time to say it.
9. 正确发出(难读单词或短语)的音
If you say that you can not get your tongue round or around a particular word or phrase, you mean that you find it very difficult to pronounce.
10. 口误
If you describe something you said as a slip of the tongue, you mean that you said it by mistake.
11. to bite your tongue - see bite
1. metal striker that hangs inside a bell and makes a sound by hitting the side
Synonym: clapper
2. the flap of material under the laces of a shoe or boot
3. a mobile mass of muscular tissue covered with mucous membrane and located in the oral cavity
4. a human written or spoken language used by a community
opposed to e.g. a computer language
Synonym: natural language
5. a manner of speaking
e.g. he spoke with a thick tongue
she has a glib tongue
6. the tongue of certain animals used as meat
7. a narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
Synonym: spit
8. any long thin projection that is transient
e.g. tongues of flame licked at the walls
rifles exploded quick knives of fire into the dark
Synonym: knife