If you ever mention my wife again, I'll have Gunther cut off the end of your tongue.

He dropped the word slowly off the end of his tongue, tasting it to the last.

He bit back the sharp remark that hung on the end of his tongue.

The American kept back the hot words that were ready upon the end of his tongue.

They really will receive the sharp end of my tongue.

She had several snappy retorts on the end of her tongue.

Like a dog dripping off the end of its tongue on a hot summer day.

The poor woman got the rougher end of my tongue and very short shrift indeed.

She felt it from stem to tip with the end of her tongue.

Simon there hath it at the end of his tongue.