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Meaning: To be unable or unwilling to speak; to remain silent when words are called for.
Language: Russian
Literally: swallowed the tongue
Category: Body & Senses
Origin: The image pictures someone literally swallowing their tongue, rendering speech impossible.
More idioms — Body & Senses
- до посинения — To do something with extreme effort or persistence, usually futilely.
- на коленке — Done hastily and without proper tools or technique; improvised or makeshift.
- Tomber dans les pommes — Suddenly losing consciousness — possibly derived from the older expression 'être dans les…
- Avoir la moutarde qui monte au nez — To be getting angry.
- Couper les cheveux en quatre — To over-analyze or split hairs.
- Se regarder le nombril — To be self-centered or narcissistic.
More Russian idioms
- метать бисер перед свиньями — To offer something precious or refined to someone incapable of appreciating it.
- сушить сухари — To prepare oneself mentally and materially for imprisonment or arrest.
- отбросить копыта — To die, to kick the bucket.
- чепуха на постном масле — Complete and utter nonsense or rubbish.
- пан или пропал — To risk everything on a single venture; all or nothing, sink or swim.
- горе луковое — A person who is accident-prone, hapless, or bumbling; one who causes trouble by their own…
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