"Are tongues flapping that energetically?"

She loved the way men glanced at her, then did a double take and looked again, with their eyes all bugged out and their tongues all but flapping like a dog's.

Ah, I used to think, the base ignominy of having to walk home, burdened by the revelation that one was not, after all, Intergalactically Chosen, with no zipper and with the tongue of one's oxfords flapping disconsolately.

Their mouths were stuck open, like the top of a shoe, tongues flapping spastically as they tried to talk to her.

Ged, crouched like a frog before the low table, rocked back and forth on his legs and arms, his big tongue flapping in and out of his huge loose mouth.

He trotted up to them just as they stepped onto the grass, his tongue flapping happily.

But your departure set more tongues flapping than anything else that's happened in years; a real scandal, say the idiots.

They went halfheartedly with their tongues flapping at the corners of their mouths for it was very hot in the whiteness of the river-bed.