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  • Why silver-tongued for someone who is convincing?
    As for silver- vs gold-tongued: @ Mick says in his comment The finest musical instruments were originally made of silver But that pushes the OP's question to: why were the finest musical instruments made of silver and not gold? It may be simply because gold is so much more expensive than silver, and thus gold instruments were exceedingly rare
  • Forked tongue and silver tongue mean the same thing? [closed]
    A person who speaks with a forked tongue is a liar or hypocrite; a person who has a silver tongue is good at persuading people forked tongue noun UK speak with a forked tongue to tell lies or say one thing and mean something else Forked tongue silver-tongued adjective UK literary
  • Idiom Request: you know how to convince me
    The idiom silver-tongued generally refers to someone perceived to have great powers of persuasion sil·ver-tongued (sĭl′vər-tŭngd′) adj Having or exhibiting the power of fluent and persuasive speech; eloquent It is often used - most often in the second person- in the highly idiomatic and humourously applied phrase silver-tongued devil
  • personal names - Why is it that John Chrysostom is almost never . . .
    The culturally correct version for English is actually “silver-tongued”, because that’s the corresponding idiom in English used to refer to one’s eloquence in speaking However, sometimes we really do get to read Ἰωάννης ὁ Χρυσόστομος fully translated, as Maggilory did when in 1871 he published his work, John of the
  • single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
    FWIW, most dictionaries I checked listed the noun silver tongue without a hyphen, and the adjective silver-tongued with a hyphen Also, to echo what @tchrist said, when such expressions exist as their own entry in the dictionary, I've always considered that a legitimate answer to a single-word request, be it with or without the hyphen
  • Is there a word to describe a fork-tongued shape?
    10 5k 2 2 gold badges 25 25 silver badges 50 50 bronze badges 4 I was going to suggest dovetail as well; a Google Image search on dovetail banner confirms this usage in the wild
  • expressions - Speaking with a forked tongue - English Language Usage . . .
    Though "speaking with a forked tongue" may be popularly associated with the speech of American Indians in TV and film westerns, the association of forked tongues with lying speech goes far back in English literature, no doubt influenced by the biblical association of the fork-tongued Serpent with the Father of Lies
  • Noun to describe someone who always knows the right things to say
    Consider, silver-tongued devil Silver tongue is an expression used to describe a person who has a clever way with words Wikipedia silver-tongued adj Having or exhibiting the power of fluent and persuasive speech; eloquent American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language Taylor got us out of trouble with the police What a silver


















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