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bad-mouth

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straight from the horse s mouth Thành ngữ, tục ngữ

a bad taste in my mouth

a feeling that something is false or unfair, a feeling of ill will I left the meeting with a bad taste in my mouth. There was a lot of dishonesty in the room.

bad-mouth

say bad things about someone The football players are always bad-mouthing their coach.

bad taste in my mouth

(See a bad taste in my mouth)

badmouth

criticize, say bad things about, put down Don't badmouth employers. Don't criticize your references.

big mouth

someone who talks too loud, loud mouth Every crowd has a big mouth - some guy who yells at the cops.

blabbermouth

a very talkative person--especially one who says things that

born with a silver spoon in his mouth

born into a rich family, accustomed to wealth "Jason won't look for a job; he was born with a silver spoon... ."

butter wouldn't melt in his mouth

he is very calm and clear, he is a smooth talker When he's talking to voters, butter wouldn't melt in his mouth.

by word of mouth

by one person speaking to another, person to person, through the grapevine News of his birth traveled by word of mouth. Soon everyone knew that Mary had a baby boy.

don't look a gift horse in the mouth

do not be critical of a gift, be grateful for a gift Don't evaluate a gift. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth.

down in the mouth

looking sad, having a sad face, a sad sack You'd be down in the mouth, too, if you'd just lost your job.

foam at the mouth

be very angry (like a mad dog) The girl's father was so angry that he was foaming at the mouth.

from hand to mouth

poor, spending every cent on necessities They lived from hand to mouth, never enjoying luxury or travel.

from the horse's mouth

(See straight from the horse's mouth)

hand to mouth

(See from hand to mouth)

hold your mouth the right way

if you shape your mouth the right way you can do it, the way you hold... """I can't tie a reef knot."" ""Sure you can - if you hold your mouth the right way."""

jungle mouth

smelly breath, unpleasant smell on the breath Most people have jungle mouth when they wake up, eh.

live from hand to mouth

live on very little money My friend has been living from hand to mouth since he lost his job.

look a gift horse in the mouth

complain if a gift is not perfect He shouldn

loud mouth

one who talks about things he should not When Bart was a boy, he was a loud mouth. He told our secrets.

loudmouth

a noisy, boastful or foolish talker He is a loudmouth and nobody at work likes him.

loudmouth/bigmouth

a noisy, boastful or foolish talker My friend is a loudmouth and is always making foolish plans that he never carries out.

make your mouth water

cause you to salivate, cause you to be hungry Your carrot cake smells so good it makes my mouth water.

melt in your mouth

fine bread or pastry, food with a fine texture Aunt Carol's muffins are so good! They just melt in your mouth!

motormouth

one who talks fast but says very little, disk jockey Listen to that motormouth! He talks fast but says nothing.

mouth off

tell a secret, talk about private information Why did you mouth off about the accident? I was going to tell Dad.

put one's foot in one's mouth

say something that is the wrong thing to say in a situation I put my foot in my mouth when I said that I didn't like fish just before my friends served fish at their dinner party.

put your foot in your mouth

say something that causes pain or embarrassment If you speak the truth, you will often put your foot in your mouth.

put your money where your mouth is

pay what you offered, put up or shut up I accept your offer. Now put your money where your mouth is.

run off at the mouth

talk a lot, talk when you should be quiet Why do you run off at the mouth and disturb this class?

say a mouthful

say something of great importance or meaning or length He really said a mouthful yesterday when he made the announcement about his new job.

shoot your mouth off

talk without thinking, blab, squeal Moe won't shoot his mouth off. He won't tell anybody.

straight from the horse's mouth

directly from the person who said it or did it I want to hear the story from Ty, straight from the horse's mouth.

the way you hold your mouth

"it is a mystery; it could be the shape of your mouth; hold your mouth..." """Why does the lock open for you but not for Joan?"" ""It's the way I hold my mouth."""

word of mouth

(See by word of mouth)

wouldn't say shit if her mouth was full of it

would not say a bad word, would not swear Vi is so sweet. She wouldn't say shit if her mouth was full of it.

all mouth and no trousers

boastful and without just reason

gator mouth

1. someone who talks too much: "She's such a gator mouth; she never shuts up"
2. a girl who gives head: "I hear she's a real gator head. Did you have a fun date?"

heart in one's mouth

a feeling of great fear or nervousness深为惊恐
in our mouths．这只熊从森林里朝我们走来时，我们非常害怕。
Our monitor got up to make his first speech with his heart in his mouth．我们班长很紧张地站起来发表他的第一次演讲。

heart in one's mouth/boots

keep one's mouth shut

be or stay silent 闭嘴
This is a cut throat business；keep your mouth shut．这是性命相关的大事，不可乱说。

melt in sb's mouth

taste very good，delicious美味可口的
Mother's apple pie really melts in your mouth．妈妈做的苹果饼真是好吃极了。

take the words out of one's mouth

Idiom(s): take the words out of one's mouth

Theme: COMMUNICATION - VERBAL

[for someone else] to say what you were going to say. (Informal. Also with right, as in the example.)
• John said exactly what I was going to say. He took the words out of my mouth.
• I agree with you, and I wanted to say the same thing. You took the words right out of my mouth.

shoot one's mouth off

Idiom(s): shoot one's mouth off

Theme: BOASTING

to boast or talk too much; to tell someone's secrets. (Slang.)
• Don't pay any attention to Bob. He's always shooting his mouth off.
• Oh, Sally! Stop shooting off your mouth! You don't know what you're talking about.

Put your money where your mouth is!

Idiom(s): Put your money where your mouth is!

Theme: MONEY

a command to stop talking big and make a bet.
• I'm tired of your bragging about your skill at betting. Put your money where your mouth is!
• You talk about betting, but you don't bet. Put your money where your mouth is!

put words into one's mouth

Idiom(s): put words into one's mouth

Theme: COMMUNICATION - VERBAL

to speak for another person without permission.
• Stop putting words into my mouth. I can speak for myself.
• The lawyer was scolded for putting words into the witness's mouth.

one's heart is in one's mouth

Idiom(s): one's heart is in one's mouth

Theme: EMOTION

to feel strongly emotional (about someone or something).
• "Gosh, Mary," said John, "my heart is in my mouth whenever I see you."
• My heart is in my mouth whenever I hear the national anthem.
• It was a touching scene. My heart was in my mouth the whole time.

not open one's mouth

Idiom(s): not open one's mouth AND not utter a word

Theme: SILENCE

not to say anything at all; not to tell something (to anyone).
• Don't worry, I'll keep your secret. I won't even open my mouth.
• Have no fear. I won't utter a word.
• I don't know how they found out. I didn't even open my mouth.

melt in one's mouth

Idiom(s): melt in one's mouth

Theme: TASTE

to taste very good.
• This cake is so good it'll melt in your mouth.
• John said that the food didn't exactly melt in his mouth.

mealymouthed

Idiom(s): mealymouthed

Theme: FRANKNESS - LACKING

not frank or direct; too shy to speak directly. (Informal.)
• Jane is too mealymouthed to tell Frank she dislikes him. She just avoids him.
• Don’t be so mealymouthed. It's better to speak plainly.

a bad aftertaste in my mouth

a activity that article is apocryphal or unfair, a activity of ill will I larboard the affair with a bad aftertaste in my mouth. There was a lot of artifice in the room.

all aperture and no trousers

boastful and afterwards aloof reason

All aperture and trousers

(UK) Addition who's all aperture and trousers talks or boasts a lot but doesn't deliver. 'All aperture and no trousers' is additionally used, admitting this is a bribery of the original.

Bad mouth

(UK) Back you are bad mouthing,you are adage abrogating things about addition or something.('Bad-mouth' and 'badmouth' are additionally used.)

bad aftertaste in my mouth

(See a bad aftertaste in my mouth)

Bad aftertaste in your mouth

If article leaves you with a bad aftertaste in your mouth, you feel there is article amiss or bad about it.

bad-mouth

say bad things about addition The football players are consistently bad-mouthing their coach.

bad-mouth someone|bad mouth|mouth

v., slang To say aspersing or aspersive things about someone; advisedly to accident another's reputation. It's not nice to bad aperture people.

badmouth

criticize, say bad things about, put down Don't badmouth employers. Don't criticize your references.

big mouth

someone who talks too loud, loud aperture Every army has a big aperture - some guy who yells at the cops.

big mouth, accept a

big mouth, accept a
Also, have or be a loud mouth. Be loquacious, generally audibly or boastfully; be awkward or acknowledge secrets. For example, After a few drinks, Dick turns into a loud aperture about his accomplishments, or Don't acquaint Peggy annihilation confidential; she's accepted for accepting a big mouth. [Slang; backward 1800s]

blabbermouth

a actual articulate person--especially one who says things that

born with a argent beanery in his mouth

born into a affluent family, acclimatized to abundance "Jason won't attending for a job; he was built-in with a argent spoon... ."

born with a argent beanery in one's mouth

Idiom(s): born with a argent beanery in one's mouth

Theme: ADVANTAGE

born with abounding advantages; built-in to a affluent family.
• Sally was built-in with a argent beanery in her mouth.
• I'm animated I was not built-in with a argent beanery in my mouth.

born with a argent beanery in one's mouth|born|mouth

adj. phr. Built-in to abundance and comfort; provided from bearing with aggregate wanted; built-in rich. The stranger's conduct was that of a man who had been built-in with a argent beanery in his mouth.
Compare: WELL-HEELED.

Born with a argent beanery in your mouth

If you are built-in with a argent beanery in your mouth, you are built-in into a affluent family.

butter wouldn't cook in his mouth

he is actual calm and clear, he is a bland anchorperson Back he's talking to voters, adulate wouldn't cook in his mouth.

butter wouldn't cook in one's mouth

butter wouldn't cook in one's mouth
Be ever coy or demure; be insincere. For example, She looked absolutely innocent, as admitting adulate wouldn't cook in her mouth, but we knew better. Already a adage in John Heywood's accumulating of 1546, this allegorical announcement alleges that one is actually so air-conditioned that adulate central the aperture would not melt.

butter wouldn't cook in one's mouth|butter|melt|mo

informal You act actual affable and affable but do not absolutely care, you are actual nice to bodies but are not sincere. The new secretary was abrupt to the added workers, but back she talked to the boss, adulate wouldn't cook in her mouth.

Butter wouldn't cook in their mouth

If addition looks as if adulate wouldn't cook in their mouth, they attending actual innocent.

by chat of mouth

by one being speaking to another, being to person, through the comment Account of his bearing catholic by chat of mouth. Soon anybody knew that Mary had a babyish boy.

by chat of mouth|mouth|word

adv. phr. From being to being by the announced word; orally. The account got about by chat of mouth. The bulletin accomplished him agilely by chat of mouth.

don't attending a allowance horse in the mouth

do not be analytical of a gift, be beholden for a allowance Don't appraise a gift. Don't attending a allowance horse in the mouth.

down in the dumps|down|down in the mouth|dumps|mou

adj. phr., informal Sad or discouraged; gloomy; dejected. The boys were absolutely down in the depression back they heard that their aggregation had lost.

down in the mouth

looking sad, accepting a sad face, a sad sack You'd be down in the mouth, too, if you'd aloof absent your job.

foam at the mouth

be actual affronted (like a mad dog) The girl's ancestor was so affronted that he was bubbles at the mouth.

foam at the mouth|foam|mouth

v. phr., slang To be actual angry, like a mad dog. By the time Uncle Henry had the third collapsed annoy he was absolutely bubbles at the mouth.

Foot in mouth

This is acclimated to call addition who has aloof said article embarrassing, inappropriate, amiss or stupid.

foot in one's mouth, put one's

foot in one's mouth, put one's
Say article foolish, embarrassing, or tactless. For example, Jane put her bottom in her aperture back she alleged him by her aboriginal husband's name. This angle is sometimes put as accepting foot-in-mouth disease, as in He has a bad case of foot-in-mouth disease, consistently authoritative some awkward remark. The aboriginal announcement dates from about 1900. The variant, dating from the mid-1900s, is a comedy on the foot-and-mouth (sometimes alleged hoof-and-mouth) disease that afflicts cattle, causing eruptions to breach out about the aperture and hoofs.

from duke to mouth

poor, spending every cent on aliment They lived from duke to mouth, never adequate affluence or travel.

from aperture to mouth|from|mouth

adv. phr. See: BY WORD OF MOUTH.

from the horse's mouth

(See beeline from the horse's mouth)

gator mouth

1. addition who talks too much: "She's such a gator mouth; she never shuts up"
2. a babe who gives head: "I apprehend she's a absolute gator head. Did you accept a fun date?"

hand to mouth

(See from duke to mouth)

hand to mouth, from

hand to mouth, from
With alone the bald essentials, absolute precariously. For example, After she absent her job she was active from duke to mouth. This announcement alludes to bistro anon whatever is at hand. [c. 1500]

hand-to-mouth|hand|mouth

adj. Not accouterment for the future; active from day to day; not extenuative for later. Many built-in tribes advance a hand-to-mouth existence, agreeable to accept aliment for one day at a time. John is not a extenuative boy; he spends his money afterwards anticipation for the future, and lives a hand-to-mouth life. See: LIVE FROM HAND TO MOUTH.

have a big mouth

Idiom(s): have a big mouth

Theme: GOSSIP

to be a gossiper; to be a being who tells secrets. (Informal.)
• Mary has a big mouth. She told Bob what I was accepting him for his birthday.
• You shouldn't say things like that about bodies all the time. Anybody will say you accept a big mouth.

have foot-in-mouth disease

Idiom(s): have foot-in-mouth disease

Theme: EMBARRASSMENT

to abash oneself through a asinine exact blunder. (Informal. This is a apology on foot-and-mouth ache or hoof-and-mouth disease, which affects beasts and deer. Fixed order.)
• I'm apologetic I accumulate adage brainless things. I assumption I accept foot-in-mouth disease.
• Yes, you absolutely accept foot-in-mouth ache tonight.

heart in one's mouth

a activity of abundant abhorrence or nervousness深为惊恐
in our mouths．这只熊从森林里朝我们走来时，我们非常害怕。
Our adviser got up to accomplish his aboriginal accent with his affection in his mouth．我们班长很紧张地站起来发表他的第一次演讲。

heart in one's mouth, accept one's

heart in one's mouth, accept one's
Be acutely abashed or anxious, as in When the even was about to booty off, my affection was in my mouth. This acceptance alludes to the affection assault so berserk that it appears to bound upward. [Mid-1500s]

heart in one's mouth/boots

heart in one's mouth|boot|boots|heart|heart in one

A activity of abundant abhorrence or nervousness.

Generally advised trite. Charles got up to accomplish his aboriginal accent with his affection in his mouth. My affection was in my aperture as I went into the apparitional house. When the buck came out of the dupe appear us, our hearts were in our mouths.
Compare: HAIR STAND ON END.

Heart in your mouth

If your affection is in your mouth, again you feel afraid or scared.

hold your aperture the appropriate way

if you appearance your aperture the appropriate way you can do it, the way you hold... """I can't tie a beach knot."" ""Sure you can - if you authority your aperture the appropriate way."""

in the mouth

in the mouth
see down in the dumps; look a allowance horse in the mouth.

jungle mouth

smelly breath, abhorrent aroma on the animation Most bodies accept boscage aperture back they deathwatch up, eh.

keep one's aperture shut

be or break bashful 闭嘴
This is a cut throat business；keep your aperture shut．这是性命相关的大事，不可乱说。

keep one's aperture shut about

Idiom(s): keep one's aperture shut (about sb or sth)

Theme: SILENCE

to accumulate quiet about addition or something; to accumulate a abstruse about addition or something. (Informal.)
• They told me to accumulate my aperture shut about the bang-up or I'd be in big trouble.
• I anticipate I'll accumulate my aperture shut.

keep one's aperture shut|keep|mouth|shut

v. phr., informal To be or break silent.

A abrupt announcement back acclimated as a command. When the crooks were captured by the police, their baton warned them to accumulate their mouths shut. Charles began to acquaint Barry how to bang the ball, and Barry said angrily, "Keep your aperture shut!"
Synonym: SHUT UP¹.

laugh on the added ancillary of one's mouth|laugh|laugh

v. phr., informal To be fabricated sorry; to feel acrimony or disappointment; cry. Paul boasted that he was a acceptable skater, but afterwards he fell, he laughed out of the added ancillary of his mouth.