guard one's tongue

Verb

 * 1) To be careful in what one says; to avoid divulging information or speaking in a way considered to be inappropriate or offensive.
 * 2) * 1696,, “Love-Letters to a Gentleman,” Letter 3, in All the Histories and Novels Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. Behn, London: Samuel Briscoe, p.47,
 * though I scorn to guard my Tongue, as hoping ’twill never offend willingly; yet I can, with much adoe, hold it, when I have a great mind to say a thousand things I know will be taken in an ill sence.

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 * Finnish: varoa sanojaan