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find one's tongue

find one's tongue verb: to speak after being unable to do so or after remaining silent; to find something to say.

Verb

find one's tongue (third-person singular simple present finds one's tongue, present participle finding one's tongue, simple past and past participle found one's tongue)

  1. (idiomatic) To speak after being unable to do so or after remaining silent; to find something to say.
    • HAVGHTY. Is this the silent woman?
      CENTAVRE. Nay, shee has found her tongue since shee was married, master TRVE-WIT sayes.1609 December (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Epicoene, or The Silent Woman. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby...
    • Jones, tho’ perhaps, the most astonished of the three, first found his Tongue; and […] he burst into a loud Laughter […]1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 5, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book V, page 225

Forms of find one's tongue

third-person singular presentfinds one's tongue
present participlefinding one's tongue
past participlefound one's tongue
pastfound one's tongue

Questions about find one's tongue

What does find one's tongue mean?
Find one's tongue means to speak after being unable to do so or after remaining silent; to find something to say.
What part of speech is find one's tongue?
Find one's tongue is a verb.
What is the past tense of find one's tongue?
The past tense of find one's tongue is found one's tongue.

Words near find one's tongue in the dictionary

  1. find one's account
  2. find one's ass with both hands and a flashlight
  3. find one's feet
  4. find one's legs
  5. find one's place
  6. find one's tongue
  7. find one's voice
  8. find one's way
  9. find oneself
  10. find out
  11. find religion

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