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Tongue stuck to throat

Bible
Bible

Phraseologism: Tongue stuck to throat.

Meaning: To lose the power of speech, to become numb from some strong feeling.

Origin: From the Bible. It is found in many places in the Old Testament, for example, in the Psalter (21:16). Sometimes quoted in Church Slavonic: "My tongue is attached to my larynx."

Random phraseology:

When I was gullible and young.

Meaning:

About youth, when a person is still gullible, naive, does not know resentment and disappointment (self-iron.).

Origin:

From the poem "Black Shawl" (1820) by A. S. Pushkin (1799-1837). The line became popular thanks to the famous romance (1823), which was written to these verses by the Russian composer A. N. Verstovsky.

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