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My Celine Posted 21 years ago
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Biting their lips
For years, officials here responded to such calls by biting their lips and making an effort to keep parents happy.
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What does it mean?
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Hi, The most common meaning is to stay silent, to avoid expressing your opinions or feelings. It's usually in a context like this. Tom's colleague came to work with a terrible, terrible haircut.
- Hi, The most common meaning is to stay silent, to avoid expressing your opinions or feelings.
- It's usually in a context like this.
- Tom's colleague came to work with a terrible, terrible haircut.
- Tom opened his mouth to say 'My ***, what happened?
- You look terrible', but instead, he bit his lip .
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Hi,
The most common meaning is to stay silent, to avoid expressing your opinions or feelings. It's usually in a context like this.
Tom's colleague came to work with a terrible, terrible haircut.
Tom opened his mouth to say 'My ***, what happened? You look terrible', but instead, he bit his lip.
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The most common meaning is to stay silent, to avoid expressing your opinions or feelings. It's usually in a context like this.
Tom's colleague came to work with a terrible, terrible haircut.
Tom opened his mouth to say 'My ***, what happened? You look terrible', but instead, he bit his lip.
You might also like to look at the simi
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My CelineFor years, officials here responded to such calls by biting their lips and making an effort to keep parents happy.It seems a strange sentence. You usually 'bite your lip' in the context of personal emotion. Officials are not known for emotion. (But then I suppose they're not known for 'keeping parents happ
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