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Hello, and welcome to the English We Speak.
I'm Jiayin.
And hello, I'm Rob.
Biting my tongue.
Rob, bite your tongue is our phrase today.
But you don't have to physically do it.
Oh.
Phew.
Biting my tongue was painful and it was very hard to speak.
Well.
That's why we sometimes tell people to bite their tongue.
You see, when we bite our tongue, we are stopping ourselves from saying something that might offend or upset someone.
It might be inappropriate, too.
You might also say to someone else, bite your tongue.
It means don't say it.
But, Rob, we don't physically bite our tongues.
Right.
So, for example, I shouldn't tell someone they've put on weight.