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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a quick tongue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who speaks easily and fluently, often with a tendency to speak without thinking or to be witty.
Example: "She has a quick tongue, always ready with a clever remark in any conversation."
Alternatives: "sharp tongue" or "silver tongue".
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_'s". Like his daughter, Naeem has a quick tongue and a ready laugh.
To get along in Australia, a quick tongue and a thick skin can be helpful allies.
Like his daughter, Naeem has a quick tongue and a ready laugh.
Blessed with a quick tongue and a rhinoceros's thick skin, Farage can be an insidiously effective speaker.
Even at age 9, she had a quick tongue, credited with saying "I wasn't lucky; I deserved it," when she received a prize at school.
A slight man with a quick tongue and a fearsome intellect, Mr. Zemmour, 52, has made a career of speaking on the edge in a culture where the ideal of social harmony often takes precedence over freedom of speech.
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It showed an auctioneer rolling numbers off his quick tongue as a crowd gathered.
Armed with a quick, sharp tongue and a brash sense of humor, his "sit down and shut up" tongue lashings were often praised as authentic and tough.
This 82-year-old document was handed to me by Carl Bildt, the Swedish foreign minister, a man of dry humor and quick tongue who can claim to be the world's authority on messes in post-Ottoman areas.
Shall I tell you that you are entitled to freely act and live as a teenaged boy in this country, dance playfully with minor mischief, and speak with a quick immature tongue?
In spite of her quick tongue, he expected her to have a conventional mind.
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