The tongue. In French, Le chiffon rouge; and balancer le chiffon rouge means to prate.
“Discovering in his mouth a tongue,
He must not his palaver balk;
So keeps it running all day long,
And fancles his red rag can talk.”
Peter Pindar: Lord B. and his Motions.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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