Word info

foreign tongue

Noun

Meaning

foreign tongue (plural foreign tongues)

Any language not native to particular person or place.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Examples

She is written in a foreign tongue. Henry James

He was not a man who prattled readily, especially in a foreign tongue. He gave the impression that each word was excavated from his interior by some up-to-date process of mining. P. G. Wodehouse

God speaks a foreign tongue. Namibian Proverb

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