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Permalink Reply by coco on October 17, 2012 at 17:25

Right, I hear that sometime, we have this idiom in French too.

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TeacherPermalink Reply by English Teacher Jamie on October 17, 2012 at 20:47

Really? That's very interesting.

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Permalink Reply by coco on October 17, 2012 at 21:12

Yes it seems the same.... Does the cat eat your tongue?  :)

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TeacherPermalink Reply by English Teacher Jamie on October 26, 2012 at 9:16

I always like to find out that some idioms are the same in other languages!

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Permalink Reply by Blue Peace on October 19, 2012 at 17:49

I like the illustration for this idiom. So cute cat!

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Permalink Reply by Ngo Thanh Cong on October 20, 2012 at 6:00

really nice idiom teacher :) I remember when I was in high school, often when we had the tests of theoretic subjects, we didn't learn them at home, we put them aside, pretended to ignore, haha, as the result we had to hide the learning materials under the table and waited for the right time when teacher did not see us, haha, and.......copied down to our paper..lolol...sometimes it worked, often not...and when not, teacher asked, he came and you know what, the cat got our tongues..:)))

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TeacherPermalink Reply by English Teacher Jamie on October 23, 2012 at 18:31

Hehe. I can imagine the teacher asking you if the cat had your tongue! Is there a similar idiom in Vietnamese?

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Permalink Reply by Ngo Thanh Cong on October 24, 2012 at 4:34

Yes, we do have some with the close meaning to this idiom :) which also are used to describe when we have no excuses for a mistake..:)

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TeacherPermalink Reply by Mr Adam on October 23, 2012 at 17:05

I wonder if a cat has ever got anyone's tongue.

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TeacherPermalink Reply by English Teacher Jamie on October 23, 2012 at 18:31

I suspect that would be extremely painful.

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Permalink Reply by Ngo Thanh Cong on October 24, 2012 at 4:39

absolutely painful and it would be worse if he couldnt talk again  T T

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Permalink Reply by Ngo Thanh Cong on October 24, 2012 at 4:38

I think this would happen sometimes to people who would love to kiss their cat  :]]

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