mother-in-law's tongue in English

noun

1

a West African plant of the agave family, having long slender leaves with yellow marginal stripes, often grown as a houseplant.

For instance they won't eat anything in the aloe family or leathery leafed plants such as mother-in-law's tongue .

noun

dumb cane

Use "mother-in-laws tongue" in a sentence

1. It's Colder than a mother-in-law's kiss

2. Silvia, your mother-in-law's a battle-ax.

3. Mother tongue(s) Specify mother tongue (if relevant add other mother tongue(s), see instructions)

4. The young assistant's Bashfulness commended him to his mother-in-law's good graces

5. Whither our mother tongue?

6. My mother tongue is Spanish.

7. Advertisements for jobs in European organisations requiring English mother tongue

8. You musk speak italian as mother - tongue.

9. I speak nothing but our mother tongue.

10. Subjct: Advertisements for jobs in European organisations requiring English mother tongue

11. In mother tongue interference, errors at syntactic level take the highest percentage.

12. • Why is it helpful to preach to people in their mother tongue?

13. Allograph Someone writing in a language other than his/her mother tongue

14. The note said 'remember the leaders' written in his mother tongue, Shona.

15. Afars speak the Afar language as a mother tongue

16. And people don't choose their mother tongue, do they?

17. It's my sister-in-law's breast.

18. The author translated the fairy tale into our mother tongue.

19. Austria's mother tongue is German is not to say that?

20. OK, let's stop here, switch the language to mother tongue.

21. Mastery of the mother tongue is a prerequisite for creative expression in other languages.

22. When school is over , pupils revert to speaking their mother tongue.

23. Mary's mother gave her a tongue-lashing for coming home late.

24. I want to talk with people are using their mother tongue.

25. The law's the law.