"watch one's tongue" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "watches one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watching one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watched one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watched one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997 February 1, Walter Goodman, “The Role of Partisans in a Neutral Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "Mr. Will, whose inkhornisms remain a weekly treat, has had tough words for former White Housers who write tell-all books, so the younger George had better watch his tongue.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Synonym of watch one's mouth"
      ],
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        [
          "watch one's mouth",
          "watch one's mouth#English"
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          "word": "watch one's mouth"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "watch one's tongue"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "watches one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watching one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watched one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "watched one's tongue",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "watch one's tongue (third-person singular simple present watches one's tongue, present participle watching one's tongue, simple past and past participle watched one's tongue)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1997 February 1, Walter Goodman, “The Role of Partisans in a Neutral Business”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
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          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Synonym of watch one's mouth"
      ],
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        [
          "watch one's mouth",
          "watch one's mouth#English"
        ]
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          "word": "watch one's mouth"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "watch one's tongue"
}