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Engywook's tongue went right to work: What have you seen and done?
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It's very tongue-in-cheek social comment but it's still social comment, he said.
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The rest of the conversation was carried on in the same tongue.
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Studies had found that tip-of-the-tongue experiences are more common among older people.
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He claims, tongue-in-cheek, that he could patent such a product next year.
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My heart beat in my temples like the clapper of an alarm-bell.
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Those two men understood each other as the clapper understands the bell.
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The Indian bell-ringer rings them by a rope fastened to each clapper.
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Brock called on him, started the video camera, clapped his imaginary clapper.
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Its weight is thirty-two thousand pounds-theclapper alone weighing a thousand pounds.
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He speaks the language of Mota, the lingua franca here, you know.
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LANGUAGES: The official language is Portuguese but Portuguese-based creole is the lingua franca.
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Every 10 minutes or so, the signs change from one lingua to the other.
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Arabic was, for a time, the lingua franca of science.
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They are very much the lingua franca of evidence-based medicine.
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The reference to the "glossa of Theotypas" is part of the fiction.