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Bite Your Tongue (Origin)
What Is the Origin of the Saying "Bite Your Tongue"?
The term "bite your tongue" means to avoid talking.
- Biting your tongue punishes it for trying to speak.
- Biting your tongue allows you to hold it discreetly, i.e., without moving your hands to your face.
- Ready to starve, and dares not touch his own.
So York must sit, and fret, and bite his tongue,
While his own lands are bargain'd for, and sold.
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