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People use their mouths for many things. They eat, talk,shout and sing. They smile and they kiss. In the Englishlanguage, there are many expressions using the wordmouth. But some of them are not so nice.
For example, if you say bad things about a person, the person might protest and say "Do not bad mouth me."
Sometimes, people say something to a friend or family member that they later regret because it hurts that person's feelings. Or they tell the person something they were not supposed to tell. The speaker might say: "I really put my foot in my mouth this time." If this should happen, the speaker might feel down in the mouth. In other words, he might feel sad forsaying the wrong thing.
Another situation is when someone falsely claimsanother person said something. The other person mightprotest: "I did not say that. Do not put words in mymouth."
Information is often spread through word of mouth. This isgeneral communication between people, like friendstalking to each other. "How did you hear about that newmovie?" someone might ask. "Oh, by word of mouth." Amore official way of getting information is through acompany or government mouthpiece. This is an officialspokesperson. Government-run media could also becalled a mouthpiece.
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says thesame thing that his friend was going to say. When thishappens, the friend might say: "You took the words rightout of my mouth!" Sometimes a person has a bad orunpleasant experience with another person. He mightsay that experience "left a bad taste in my mouth." Orthe person might have had a very frightening experience,like being chased by an angry dog. He might say: "I hadmy heart in my mouth."
Some people have lots of money because they were borninto a very rich family. There is an expression for this,too. You might say such a person, "was born with a silver spoon in his mouth."
This rich person is the opposite of a person who livesfrom hand to mouth. This person is very poor and onlyhas enough money for the most important things in life,like food.
Parents might sometimes withhold sweet food from achild as a form of punishment for saying bad things. Forexample, if a child says things she should not say to herparents, she might be described as a mouthy child. Theparents might even tell the child to stop mouthing off. But enough of all this talk. I have been running my mouthlong enough.
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