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tongue-tied ADJ

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Although well-built and chivalrous he is socially awkward around women and becomes tongue-tied easily.
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There, people chuckled when unmarried women visited doctors but remained tongue-tied when they were found dead under mysterious circumstances.
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Aside from being a medical condition, tongue-tied means being unable to say what you want to due to confusion or restriction.
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This was not because they were tongue-tied: it is because the organisers did not want to hear them.
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He is smooth and unruffled while the team members are tense and tongue-tied.
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Terry's a tongue-tied mess, though he admits it.
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His verses tell how he disliked the change, and how the bustle of the capital, then a great commercial emporium, made him sad and almost tongue-tied for poetry.
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You'd always play the same scenario over and over again in your head -- but end up getting tongue-tied when you're in front of him/her.
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Nor is she responsive to the romantic attentions of a nervous, tongue-tied plumber, who clearly adores her.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Socially awkward and reliably tongue-tied, he nevertheless impresses with his sincerity.
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