Bite your tongue - Idioms by The Free Dictionary
Bite your tongue!”. A much older but related phrase is to bite one’s tongue, meaning to remain silent when provoked—literally, to hold it between one’s teeth so as to suppress speaking. Shakespeare had it in Henry VI, Part 2 (1.1): “So Yorke must sit, and fret, and bite his tongue.”. See also hold one's tongue.
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