bite one's tongue offとは 意味・読み方・使い方

A man of seventy had bitten off a piece of his tongue during an epileptic fit and the tongue had filled in again, so that no one could see a trace of the bite.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

七十の男がてんかんの発作の間に舌の一部を噛み切ったが舌は元通りにふさがったので、誰も噛んだ跡はわからなかった。 - James Joyce『恩寵』