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"A thick tongue" nghĩa là gì?
27 Sep, 2021
"A thick tongue" -> nghĩa là người luôn cố tỏ ra thông minh hơn người khác (tới mức khó chịu); thằng khôn lỏi (lắm lời, nhiều lời).
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Indeed, he appears almost interchangeable (có thể hoán đổi) with the amiable (tử tế) but thick-tongued bachelors who people the background in Jane Austen’s novels.
The trooper later wrote in the report that "The first thing I observed about Mr. Arnold was that he displayed lethargic (thờ ơ) behavior. His speech was slurred, sounding thick tongued."
She smelled of booze (say sưa), mumbled and was “thick tongued,” deputies (người đại diện) said. Deputies said they were going to perform a DUI investigation. “The hell you are,” she is quoted as saying. Carr declined to take field sobriety (điềm tĩnh) exercises.
“Despite both Ms. Austin and I,” Officer Harrer wrote in a report, “standing outside on a breezy morning, I could smell a strong odor (mùi hương) of an alcoholic beverage emanating from her person.The odor increased as she spoke. I observed Ms Austin’s eyes to be extremely bloodshot (cáu giận) and glassy, and her speech was thick-tongued and slightly slurred; she swayed back and forth while standing.”
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