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2024-04-05 17:59:40 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 7D96B24678C0C0CA0573A9736BEFD4638D385327A09F7F52F80230C3EE68CFA2
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Original Note:
For the Egyptians and Abyssinians, cutting out the tongue was a practiced punishment for lying, but there is no evidence that this was an idiom used at the time. The modern phrase comes from English sailors who would get whipped with a “cat of nines” for misbehaving. https://www.gingersoftware.com/content/phrases/cat-got-your-tongue#:~:text=On%20English%20sailing%20ships%2C%20anyone,the%20cat%20got%20your%20tongue%3F
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