avere la lingua lunga

Italian

Etymology

Literally, “to have the tongue long”. Compare French avoir la langue bien pendue.

Verb

avére la lingua lunga (first-person singular present (with syntactic gemination after the verb) hò la lingua lunga, first-person singular past historic èbbi la lingua lunga or ébbi la lingua lunga, past participle avùto la lingua lunga, first-person singular future avrò la lingua lunga, first-person singular subjunctive àbbia la lingua lunga, second-person singular imperative àbbi la lingua lunga, auxiliary avére)

1. to be very talkative; to talk too much; to be a windbag or chatterbox