| 单词 | to put one's foot in one's mouth |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto put one's foot in one's mouth (a) to put one's foot in one's mouth and variants: to say something tactless or embarrassing. Cf. to put one's foot in (also into) it at Phrases 5e. ΚΠ 1879 Waterloo (Iowa) Courier 12 Feb. 6/5 He is bound to put his foot in his mouth whenever he opens it. 1902 Atlanta Constit. 16 July 6/3 General Bragg has gone and done it again! His happy faculty of putting his foot in his mouth whenever he opens it hangs to him like a toper's appetite. 1991 Mirabella May 112/2 To the despair of his media spinmasters and five-star gurus, including Kissinger and Nixon, he had only to wander a wee bit away from his prepared script and..there he was again with his foot in his mouth. 2002 Village Voice (N.Y.) 22 Jan. 10/3 My whole art is the art of clumsiness, of cosmic left-handedness..Sticking your foot in your mouth so many times that you get athlete's foot between your teeth. < as lemmas |
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