I didn't believe her explanation but I bit my tongue.

我不相信她的解释，但我忍着没有说出来。

《牛津词典》

Because I just bit my tongue.

因为我刚才咬到舌头了。

youdao

The pepper bit my tongue.

辣椒辣得我舌头发麻。

youdao

So, I gathered my courage, bit my tongue, and proceeded through my day, doing everything exactly as I always had, noting where I was each time I ran into him, and when.

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After stewing for a bit on this, I remembered a tongue-in-cheek comment my colleague, Peter Kelly-Detwiler, made about DR a couple of years ago.

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