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keep a civil tongue

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keep a civil tongue (in one's head)
Fig. to speak decently and politely. Please, John. Don't talk like that. Keep a civil tongue in your head. John seems unable to keep a civil tongue.
See also: civil, keep, tongue


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Otherwise, it's best to keep a civil tongue while discussing honest disagreements in practice.
It was hard to keep a civil tongue when they're wolfing down a bacon double cheeseburger deluxe from the Homer Diner (complete with a honking huge fried-onion ring and le cheese frites
All he had to do was keep a civil tongue in his head, and his hands off the student bodies and he'd get to maintain his status as the biggest, baddest Alpha male at Indiana University.
 
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