Flannery O'Connor

(1925—1964)

U.S. author

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

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tongue-in-cheek

[tongue-in-cheek] {adj. phr.} In an ironic or insincere manner. * /When the faculty complained about the poor salary increments, the university's president said that he was not a psychiatrist, thus […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

do credit

[do credit] or [do credit to] also ({informal}) [do proud] To add to or improve the reputation, good name, honor, or esteem of; show (you) deserve praise. * /Your neat […] A Dictionary of American Idioms

Jane Austen

(1775-1818) English author, in a letter dated December 24 1798 You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as […] www.sky-net-eye.com

tongue

[tongue] See: [AT THE TIP OF ONE'S TONGUE], [CAT GET ONE'S TONGUE], [HOLD ONE'S TONGUE], [KEEP A CIVIL TONGUE IN ONE'S HEAD], [SLIP OF THE TONGUE]. A Dictionary of American Idioms

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