tongues
21tongues\ wag — informal People speak in an excited or gossipy manner; people spread rumors. If married women go out with other men, tongues will wag. When the bank clerk showed up in an expensive new car, tongues wagged …
22tongues are wagging — When tongues are wagging, people are beginning to spread gossip or rumours, often about someone s private life. The photograph of the couple that appeared in a magazine really set tongues wagging …
23tongues, speaking in — or glossolalia Utterances approximating words and speech that are nonetheless generally unintelligible, usually produced during states of trance or delirium. The religious interpretation of the phenomenon is that the speaker is possessed by a… …
24tongues, speaking in — The act of speaking, or singing, in a language incomprehensible to the speaker and the audience, familiar in times of intense religious emotion in Christian and non Christian communities. It was experienced at Corinth (1 Cor. 12:10) but Paul… …
25tongues — tʌŋ n. flexible muscular organ in the bottom of the mouth (used for tasting, swallowing and human speech); animal s tongue that is used for food; language or dialect; tongue shaped object …
26Tongues — A traditional gift of the Holy Spirit; the ability to speak a strange heavenly language; it is a common feature of religious revivals …
27tongues — The common remark to people who complain of having a pimple or spot on their tongue, that they have been lying, is old indeed. In England it goes back at least to the 17th century Shakespeare alludes to it (Winter s Tale (1611), ii. ii): If I… …
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29Tongues, Confusion of — At Babel, the cause of the early separation of mankind and their division into nations. The descendants of Noah built a tower to prevent their dispersion; but God confounded their language (Gen. 11:1 8), and they were scattered over the whole… …
30tongues, speaking in — Разговор на языках …