You’re watching Lingo Phoenix’s word of the day for January 23.

National Pie Day

Today’s word is tongue, spelled t-o-n-g-u-e.

tongue /tʌŋ/ noun

roll/trip off the tongue idiom

to be easy to say or pronounce

The name just rolls off the tongue.

doesn’t roll off the tongue easily

cat got your tongue idiom

informal

—used to ask someone why he or she is not saying anything

"You've been unusually quiet tonight," she said. "What's the matter? Cat got your tongue?"

get one's tongue around idiom

informal

: to have no difficulty saying (a word or phrase)

I can't get my tongue around his last name.

I couldn’t get my tongue around the names of the villages we’d visited.