guards one's tongue
guards one's tongue is the third-person singular simple present indicative of guard one's tongue.
Meaning of guard one's tongue
Verb
guard one's tongue (third-person singular simple present guards one's tongue, present participle guarding one's tongue, simple past and past participle guarded one's tongue)
- To be careful in what one says; to avoid divulging information or speaking in a way considered to be inappropriate or offensive.
- […] though I scorn to guard my Tongue, as hoping ’twill never offend willingly; yet I can, with much adoe, hold it, when I have a great mind to say a thousand things I know will be taken in an ill sence.1696, Aphra Behn, “Love-Letters to a Gentleman,” Letter 3, in All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, London: Samuel Briscoe, p. 47
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