Meaning of find one's tongue | Babel Free

Definitions

To speak after being unable to do so or after remaining silent; to find something to say.

idiomatic

Examples

“HAVGHTY. Is this the silent woman? CENTAVRE. Nay, shee has found her tongue since shee was married, master TRVE-WIT sayes.”

“Jones, tho’ perhaps, the most astonished of the three, first found his Tongue; and […] he burst into a loud Laughter […]”

“But I did not answer at once. I stared incredulous. For an instant I could not believe my eyes. I gave an inarticulate cry. I gripped his arm. I pointed. “Look!” I cried, finding my tongue. “There! Yes! And there!””

“Joyce knew things were going badly, but she couldn’t find her tongue to smooth it out. A million dangerous double entendres were sitting at the back of her throat, and, if she opened her mouth even a slit (!), she feared one of them was going to come out.”

CEFR level