Ready to utter something but unable to remember it at the moment, as in I met him last year and his name is on the tip of my tongue—it’ll come to me in a minute. [ Early 1700]
Keeping this in view, is there something on the tip of your tongue?
*on the tip of one’s tongue
[of a thought or idea] about to be said or almost remembered. (*Typically: be ~; have something ~.) … I’ll think of it in a second.
In this way, what does the idiom rub elbows with mean?
US, informal. : to meet and talk with (someone) in a friendly way The awards dinner gave me the opportunity to rub elbows with some of today’s greatest American poets.
How do you spell ??
Noun
- Obsolete spelling of tongue.
- Misspelling of tongue.
What is a person without tongue called?
She and Wang have been looking into isolated congenital aglossia, the rare condition in which a person is born without a tongue. Rogers, their test case, is one of 11 people recorded in medical literature since 1718 to have the condition, and there are fewer than 10 in the world today who have it, McMicken said.
What is a vulgar word?
Vulgarity, in the sense of vulgar speech, can refer to language which is offensive or obscene. The word most associated with the verbal form of vulgarity is “cursing.” However, there are many subsections of vulgar words.
