There is also a recent trend to split off the forked-tongued frogs as distinct family Dicroglossidae again.

It is unclear whether forked-tongued reptiles can actually follow trails or if this is just a hypothesis.

In Lansing, the vice president is "forked-tongued, Pinocchio-nosed Al Gore."

That we have been able to come up with so many words to describe forked-tongued and muddle-headed language indicates that we may one day not just speak but communicate.

But it was a supporting role as a forked-tongued fashion assistant in the 2006 box-office hit The Devil Wears Prada that catapulted Blunt into the Hollywood mainstream.

And yes, J B battles Satan himself (Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters), who appears near the end of movie in all his scarlet, horned and forked-tongued glory to growl obscenities and set things on fire.

The common name of the family is fork-tongued frogs.

"She's big and pretty," said the girl, beaming after viewing the fork-tongued cobra.

Our government has been equally fork-tongued.

Are we surprised by such fork-tongued simplifications?

Give me no riddles, you fork-tongued wretch!

I was burned, back on the seven Hes a fork-tongued liar, Brother Norman!

Limnonectes is a genus of fork-tongued frogs of about 64 known species, but new ones are still being described occasionally.

The good-looking, fork-tongued incomer is stealthy and ambiguous.

Why the idea of a full-scale hostile encounter with this fork-tongued sprite was an intriguing prospect, Gray preferred not to examine too closely.

There are ochre handprints, chalky echidnas, fork-tongued goannas.

A snake brought about the downfall of humankind, a snake is a slimy, wriggling, fork-tongued incarnation of the Devil himself.

It appears our AG is a fork-tongued politician who says one thing to grab votes, and something else after it hits the fan (or the Internet).

Possibly, if they can tolerate online snarkiness — especially from the high priestesses of the art, the fork-tongued moms of the Urban Baby and YouBeMom sites.

In “Hillary’s Downfall,” you can’t believe how quickly the haircut and costume recede and the Hitler factor fades, eclipsed by Ganz’s tough old fork-tongued grandpa performance.

It all becomes a little more unnerving however when the body at fault is not fork-tongued politicians - who can and have been challenged in the press - but notionally objective Government departments.

Firstly, they have had to do battle with those calculating opportunists the fork-tongued drug merchants who use every trick in the book to undermine any genuine treatments not under their own jurisdiction.

She had attacked her predecessor during the election campaign for being fork-tongued about Iraq, saying one thing to US President George W. Bush and another to the Finnish people.

Even so, the new editions of Ms. Ullman’s previous books come bearing tech-focused cover designs: a USB cable as fork-tongued serpent, a desktop mouse as hollow-eyed skull.

In the final frame, the one-to-one relationship breaks down and the dark demons of the unconscious take over, unleashing shadows of a fire-breathing, fork-tongued dragon and a vaguely human, clawed beast.

His star has fallen; he is perceived by critics as slippery and fork-tongued, having acted duplicitously in bringing Britain into an unpopular war with Iraq, and often sacrificing substance for facile, actorly charm.

He once sat on a loveseat with Nancy Pelosi, a left-wing demon to many Republicans, in an advertisement backed by Al Gore, an even more fork-tongued figure, to call for action against global warming.

I hurt, but was not angry; at first it was difficult for me to understand my parents rage, because I had never seen in Tracy the venomous, fork-tongued creature to which she had changed in my parents' minds.

There are a few genuinely frightening moments of creaking, hissy ambiance that fans of the new "Fever Ray" record could get behind, but the real pleasure is in the fork-tongued melodic tracks that revel in their own noir-ishness.

(Oh, and let’s make a call to the Afghan president on one of those mobile phones that goes like this: “Mr Karzai, listen up dude, we’re going to cut the number of troops fast enough so you get the message we’re not bankrolling your fork-tongued ruses any longer.”)

There is a classic photo of model Dovima posing in a Dior gown and positioned between circus elephants; a fully made-up Marilyn Monroe in a sequined halter dress, looking lost; and Nastassja Kinski lying nude, face impassive, wrapped in the curves of a monstrous fork-tongued snake.