| 释义 |
Idiom start tongues waggingset/start tongues wagging informal if something that someone says or does sets tongues wagging, it causes people to talk about them.His late-night visit to her home has set tongues wagging.
start tongues (a-)waggingTo be a source of gossip, slander, or idle speculation. Just when the dust of his previous scandal had begun to settle, the governor did something new to start tongues a-wagging across the country. Being such a media celebrity means that anything one does, no matter how banal, is enough to start tongues wagging. |