forked tongue
Noun
Meaning
forked tongue (plural forked tongues)
The split tongue of a snake
forked tongue (plural forked tongues)
(idiomatic) The characteristic of deceptiveness; duplicity; untruthfulness.
Examples
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue.
To, on the one hand, claim that the Front doesn’t work and, on the other, that the Front dominates everything is to speak with a forked tongue.
We wonder if its GOD or the DEVIL that is twisting his forked tongue?
Surely this is not the first time you have run across the government using forked tongue words to muddy the constitutional waters?
That he was a big asshole with the eyes of a reptile and a forked tongue.”