sharp tongue

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   a bitter or critical manner of speaking

   Broadertongue

Questions about sharp tongue

What does sharp tongue mean?

sharp tongue means "a bitter or critical manner of speaking".

Is sharp tongue a common word?

sharp tongue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.