"Cat got your tongue?" e.g.
The crossword clue ""Cat got your tongue?" e.g." is answered by IDIOM, a 5-letter entry. Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus.
The answer
IDIOM
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the IDIOM answer page.
Used 7 times across 7 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 2006. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for IDIOM
Every other clue in this collection answered by IDIOM, most used first.
- Figure of speech - used 135 times, most recently in 2026
- Dialect - used 34 times, most recently in 2021
- "Going to the dogs," e.g. - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Manner of speaking - used 18 times, most recently in 2025
- "Talk turkey," e.g. - used 15 times, most recently in 2015
- Turn of phrase - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
- Translator's challenge - used 12 times, most recently in 2025
- Language quirk - used 11 times, most recently in 2011
- Common expression - used 9 times, most recently in 2022
- "Eat crow" or "talk turkey" - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
- Language peculiarity - used 9 times, most recently in 2011
- Jargon - used 8 times, most recently in 2006
- Dialect of a region - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
- Expression - used 7 times, most recently in 2024
- "In the doghouse," e.g. - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
- Colloquialism - used 6 times, most recently in 2012
- Figurative expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Hard-to-translate phrase - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Non-literal expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
- Nonliteral expression - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
Related clues
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- Got up - STOOD, used 102 times
- Got out of bed - AROSE, used 88 times
- Got wind of - HEARD, used 74 times
- Cat-___-tails - ONINE, used 55 times
- Got along - FARED, used 49 times
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