"speak with a forked tongue" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "* Possibly from the split tongue of a snake.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speaks with a forked tongue",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speaking with a forked tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoke with a forked tongue",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoken with a forked tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "speak<,,spoke,spoken> with a forked tongue"
      },
      "expansion": "speak with a forked tongue (third-person singular simple present speaks with a forked tongue, present participle speaking with a forked tongue, simple past spoke with a forked tongue, past participle spoken with a forked tongue)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Talking",
          "orig": "en:Talking",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 26, “Let a real \"probe\" begin”, in Sandusky Register online, retrieved 2008-03-26",
          "text": "He's spoken with a forked tongue to reporters, and his explanations for launching a probe don't pass the plausibility and credibility tests.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak deceptively; to be duplicitous or untruthful."
      ],
      "id": "en-speak_with_a_forked_tongue-en-verb-j2oLrmRl",
      "links": [
        [
          "deceptively",
          "deceptively"
        ],
        [
          "duplicitous",
          "duplicitous"
        ],
        [
          "untruthful",
          "untruthful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To speak deceptively; to be duplicitous or untruthful."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "out of both sides of one's mouth"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "nl",
          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "met twee monden spreken"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "puhua yhtä ja sitten toista"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "imperfective"
          ],
          "word": "oszukiwać"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "perfective"
          ],
          "word": "oszukać"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "hablar con lengua viperina"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "tala med kluven tunga"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-speak with a forked tongue.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/74/En-au-speak_with_a_forked_tongue.ogg/En-au-speak_with_a_forked_tongue.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-au-speak_with_a_forked_tongue.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "speak with a forked tongue"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "* Possibly from the split tongue of a snake.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "speaks with a forked tongue",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "speaking with a forked tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoke with a forked tongue",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "spoken with a forked tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "speak<,,spoke,spoken> with a forked tongue"
      },
      "expansion": "speak with a forked tongue (third-person singular simple present speaks with a forked tongue, present participle speaking with a forked tongue, simple past spoke with a forked tongue, past participle spoken with a forked tongue)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "out of both sides of one's mouth"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Talking"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2008 March 26, “Let a real \"probe\" begin”, in Sandusky Register online, retrieved 2008-03-26",
          "text": "He's spoken with a forked tongue to reporters, and his explanations for launching a probe don't pass the plausibility and credibility tests.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To speak deceptively; to be duplicitous or untruthful."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "deceptively",
          "deceptively"
        ],
        [
          "duplicitous",
          "duplicitous"
        ],
        [
          "untruthful",
          "untruthful"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To speak deceptively; to be duplicitous or untruthful."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-speak with a forked tongue.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/74/En-au-speak_with_a_forked_tongue.ogg/En-au-speak_with_a_forked_tongue.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/En-au-speak_with_a_forked_tongue.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "met twee monden spreken"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "puhua yhtä ja sitten toista"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "imperfective"
      ],
      "word": "oszukiwać"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "perfective"
      ],
      "word": "oszukać"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "hablar con lengua viperina"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "tala med kluven tunga"
    }
  ],
  "word": "speak with a forked tongue"
}