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The Ultimate Body Language Book

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Pushing the tongue through compressed lips is used to signal a cheeky attitude when done amongst<br />

friends, but has a more sinister meaning when done in competitive situations. “Tongue-jutting” is used<br />

in this case when people think they have gotten away with something, or have been caught doing<br />

something they shouldn’t have. However, in this case the tongue usually is pushed through the teeth<br />

and doesn’t touch the lips.<br />

<strong>The</strong> gesture will be seen at the conclusion of an episode such as signing a contract or winning a hand at<br />

poker by bluffing. Most of the time tongue protrusion happens when people feel they haven’t been<br />

caught, but sometimes it’s actually because they’ve been caught. <strong>The</strong> statement reads “I’ve gotten away<br />

with this”, “I’m telling a cheeky joke or making a cheeky statement”, “I’ve made a mistake” or “I’ve<br />

been caught trying to pull a fast one.” Tongue through the lips or teeth can happen any place at anytime<br />

but signals the same thing almost everywhere and that is that a person is doing something that is<br />

pushing the envelop of acceptability or has gotten caught doing something that is unacceptable.<br />

Obviously if we notice this tongue language we should review what has been said and suspect highly<br />

that we’ve been fooled, cheated, that we or someone around us has been made the butt of a joke, or that<br />

the tongue protruder has realized they’ve made a mistake.

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