"guard one's tongue" meaning in English

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      "form": "guards one's tongue",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "guarding one's tongue",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "guarded one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "guarded one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1696, Aphra Behn, “Love-Letters to a Gentleman,” Letter 3, in All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, London: Samuel Briscoe, p. 47,\n[…] though I scorn to guard my Tongue, as hoping ’twill never offend willingly; yet I can, with much adoe, hold it, when I have a great mind to say a thousand things I know will be taken in an ill sence."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1793, John Trusler, chapter 36, in Life; or, The Adventures of William Ramble, Esq., volume 3, London: for the author, page 86",
          "text": "[…] of course it is a little out of character to call upon me to guard my tongue, when it is the privilege of a freeman to speak his mind […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 2, in The Big Fisherman, Toronto: Thomas Allen, page 30",
          "text": "But in spite of the affection she felt for her charming mother-in-law, Arnon had extended no confidences. Her father had warned her to guard her tongue in the presence of these people.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be careful in what one says; to avoid divulging information or speaking in a way considered to be inappropriate or offensive."
      ],
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        [
          "careful",
          "careful"
        ],
        [
          "divulging",
          "divulge"
        ],
        [
          "inappropriate",
          "inappropriate"
        ],
        [
          "offensive",
          "offensive"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "shǒukǒurúpíng",
          "sense": "be careful in what one says",
          "word": "守口如瓶"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "be careful in what one says",
          "word": "varoa sanojaan"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "guard one's tongue"
}

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    {
      "form": "guards one's tongue",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "guarding one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "guarded one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
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      "tags": [
        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "text": "1696, Aphra Behn, “Love-Letters to a Gentleman,” Letter 3, in All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, London: Samuel Briscoe, p. 47,\n[…] though I scorn to guard my Tongue, as hoping ’twill never offend willingly; yet I can, with much adoe, hold it, when I have a great mind to say a thousand things I know will be taken in an ill sence."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1793, John Trusler, chapter 36, in Life; or, The Adventures of William Ramble, Esq., volume 3, London: for the author, page 86",
          "text": "[…] of course it is a little out of character to call upon me to guard my tongue, when it is the privilege of a freeman to speak his mind […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1948, Lloyd C. Douglas, chapter 2, in The Big Fisherman, Toronto: Thomas Allen, page 30",
          "text": "But in spite of the affection she felt for her charming mother-in-law, Arnon had extended no confidences. Her father had warned her to guard her tongue in the presence of these people.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "To be careful in what one says; to avoid divulging information or speaking in a way considered to be inappropriate or offensive."
      ],
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        [
          "careful",
          "careful"
        ],
        [
          "divulging",
          "divulge"
        ],
        [
          "inappropriate",
          "inappropriate"
        ],
        [
          "offensive",
          "offensive"
        ]
      ]
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  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shǒukǒurúpíng",
      "sense": "be careful in what one says",
      "word": "守口如瓶"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "be careful in what one says",
      "word": "varoa sanojaan"
    }
  ],
  "word": "guard one's tongue"
}