law of the tongue

English

Proper noun

law of the tongue

1. Appropriate control of one's words.
   • 1922, Louis Albert Banks, The new ten commandments, and other sermons, page 16:

     How close the Psalmist came to the proper law of the tongue when he exclaimed: "Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord"

See also

• Old Tom (orca) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia