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tongue

coffee

hipster

dad joke

muscle

collective noun

elephant

whale

blue whale

trivia

fingerprint

face

muscles

taste bud

taste (flavor)

healing

woodpecker

tiger

chameleon

tape measure

is like a racehorse: the less weight it carries, the faster it runs.

The tongue is like a racehorse: the less weight it carries, the faster it runs

 both names and tastes. Words fill the mouth as food does, they have their own savor and texture. They can be as biting, fiery, sweet, tough, tender, honeyed, sour - there are in fact few adjectives for food that don't apply equally well to words.

there an adjective for food that doesn't apply equally well to words'' (Halligan, 1990: 124-5).

He gossips habitually... he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. Mark Twain

is the heart's pen and the mind's messenger.

The tongue is the heart's pen and the mind's messenger. Joseph Ibn Pakuda Bachya

is, in the mouth of a wise man, a shield, not a sword.

The wise man's tongue is a shield, not a sword.

is a woman's sword and she never lets it rust.

The tongue of women is their sword, and they take care not to let it rust.

Remember, your tongue is a wet place and likely to slip.

is only a few inches from the brain, but when you listen to some people talk, they seem miles apart.

The human tongue is only a few inches from the brain, but when you listen to some people talk, they seem miles apart.

tongue, n.All

tongue