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tongue

noun: the soft, movable part in the mouth that is used for tasting and eating food and in human beings for speaking
noun: a fleshy movable muscular process of the floor of the mouths of most vertebrates that bears sensory end organs and small glands and functions especially in taking and swallowing food and in humans as a speech organ
verb: to produce separate notes when you are blowing air through a musical instrument (such as a trumpet) by using your tongue to briefly stop the flow of air
verb: to touch or lick with or as if with the tongue
+ 'of'
synonyms: expression, speech, language

I thought she was acting foolishly, but I 'bit my tongue' [='held my tongue'] and didn't say anything.
The news of their engagement 'set tongues wagging'. = 'Tongues were wagging' over their engagement.
He speaks English fluently but his 'mother tongue' [='native language, first language'] is Chinese.

(..) and bid me hold my peace I pray you both, if you have hitherto concealed this sight, let it be held within your silence still And whatsoever else shall pass tonight, give it an understanding but no tongue Upon the platform 'twixt eleven and twelve I'll visit you - Our duty to your honour (..)
2015 Hamlet
(..) than Ito Hercules... within a month! Oh most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets It is not, nor cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue - Soft you, a word, my lord - Horatio? Friends to this ground and liegemen to the Dane (..)
2015 Hamlet