0 If you get tongue-tied, you find it difficult to express yourself, usually because you are nervous. --
1 having difficulty in speaking, usually because of being nervous: --
I was practically tongue-tied.
He will be incoherent and tongue-tied.
He is now apparently tongue-tied.
Some people are lucky and may be able to have a friend to represent them, but others may have friends who are just as tongue-tied as they are.
There are a number of people who go to these courts who are nervous, tongue-tied, perhaps ill-educated, and occasionally almost illiterate, and they are generally not legally represented.
The tenant, a woman, was tongue-tied.
It has not been noticeable in the debate that the judges, for instance, are tongue-tied about them.
I have seen inarticulate, tongue-tied children transformed into confident, articulate youngsters, and potential young trouble-makers creatively diverted from mischief.
He found men who had previously been always tongue-tied talking quite freely to the boys.
