Idiom
cat got someone's tongue
Meaning
Why is someone not saying anything?
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Why are you so quiet? Has the cat got your tongue?”
“You have been silent all evening; has the cat got your tongue?”
“When the teacher asked who broke the window, the boy stared at his shoes as if the cat had got his tongue.”
Examples
simple
“Why are you so quiet? Has the cat got your tongue?”
contextual
“You have been silent all evening; has the cat got your tongue?”
complex
“When the teacher asked who broke the window, the boy stared at his shoes as if the cat had got his tongue.”
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