keep a civil tongue การใช้

• Growing up, young people are admonished to keep a civil tongue.
• Keep a civil tongue in your head .'Oh, we laughed about that ."
• It can only mean I had better keep a civil tongue in my mouth.
• He always keeps a civil tongue, remains patient.
• Former President George Bush, who had vowed to keep a civil tongue while his son campaigns, verged as close as he has ever been to endorsing the House vote to impeach Clinton.
• Comedians, politicians and talk show hosts should keep a civil tongue because vulgar jokes and personal attacks harm the country as well as one's foes, Tipper Gore, wife of Vice President Al Gore, said in Seattle Wednesday.
• All this reminds me of calmer days when hotheaded scolds were cautioned to " keep a civil tongue in your head " and children had their mouths washed out with soap for saying words like " genitalia ."
• As soon as he undertakes to keep a civil tongue in his head, specifically with regard to the offensive term Buckwheat, I for one am willing to unblock him . talk 14 : 04, 7 March 2013 ( UTC ).
• Sometimes they trade barbed epigrams of a stripe dear to the hearts of female impersonators . ( " One must keep a civil tongue in one's mouth; it need not be one's own . " ) More often they wander into elaborately woven conceits and metaphors.