See bite one's tongue on Wiktionary
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"ref": "2013, Katy Perry, Roar:",
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"ref": "2020 June 23, John Bolton, The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir, New York, N.Y.: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 305:",
"text": "[…]my automatic tongue-biting mechanism kicked in just in time.",
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"text": "I swear I meant to mean the best when it ended / Even try to bite my tongue when you start shit / Now you're texting all my friends, asking questions / They never even liked you in the first place",
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"word": "pitää suu kiinni"
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"word": "sich auf die Zunge beißen"
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"word": "δαγκώνω τη γλώσσα μου"
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"note": "амаа татах (amaa tatax, literally “pull one's mouth”)",
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