Tongue-twister

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A phrase that is deliberately designed to be difficult to say correctly, usually because of varying combinations of similar phonemes.

    "The present name being a translation, "in brief," of the original tongue-twister, meaning "the river of the rock""

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"It's a very difficult tongue-twister."

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