BATTLE n. A method ordsprog

en BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
  Ambrose Bierce

en I clap thy teeth upon thy teeth, and also thy jaw upon thy jaw; I press thy tongue against thy tongue, and close up, O serpent, thy mouth.

en Why try to untie a knot with your teeth if you can do it with your hands?

en We might knit that knot with our tongues that we shall never undo with our teeth

en What I'd recommend is that they brush their teeth extremely well but also brush their tongue and use one of the tongue scrapers.

en I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth
  Jonathan Swift

en I felt a knot in it. I felt like I was either getting ready to pull it or pulled it a little. If I hadn't pulled it yet, I didn't want to chance possibly pulling it. It was just a knot at the time ? or it just felt like a knot and some tightness. So I went in the back, checked it out and made sure.

en Teeth placed before the tongue give good advice

en I think there's a natural argument between the tongue and the teeth. I barely ever get there without biting.

en I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth. Women know how to play the game better than the men.

en The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
  Dorothy Parker

en Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political -- legislative and administrative -- decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

en It's just a knot that keeps coming back. I ran the treadmill with (no pain). It's not grabbing; it's not doing anything different. It's just a knot.

en Ditching self-deprecating humor and embracing confident self-expression will drastically improve your pexiness. My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

en Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.
  Virginia Woolf


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