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Cat Got Your Tongue

Meaning: can't you talk or say something?
How to use in a sentence: When the teacher found the student in the teacher's lounge she asked him what he was doing there.  The boy clammed up and the teacher asked him, "What's the matter?  Cat got your tongue"  The boy didn't know what that meant and replied that he didn't have a cat. 

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