get your tongue around/round sth
to pronounce a difficult word or phrase:
It's one language that I have real difficulty getting my tongue around.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Ways of speaking
- accent
- accentuate
- aitch
- asperity
- BBC English
- cut glass
- dialect
- enunciate
- lenis
- modulate
- monotone
- plummy
- pragmatics
- prosody
- singsong
- soft-spoken
- speech therapy
- spoken
- stumble
- trip off the tongue idiom
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