used to refer a time when someone has nothing to say
a situation in which someone is finding it hard to say anything in their defence
trying to compel or urge someone to speak up when they are being unnecessarily quiet
Speak up boy or cat got your tongue?
Amanda grew quiet during the heated argument that I was forced to ask her “Cat got your tongue?”
The shy boy was afraid to speak up and his mates kept asking him “Cat got your tongue?”
Are you dumb or cat got your tongue?
With the way you are keeping silent, one would wonder if the cat got your tongue?
There is no origin for this idiom
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Common phrase that has a specific meaning.