in your own words
If you say something in your own words, you speak without copying what someone else has said:
The court has heard accounts of that night's events from several witnesses - now please tell us in your own words what you saw.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Saying & uttering
- (your) every word idiom
- add
- articulate
- come
- come out with sth
- every
- fall
- find your voice idiom
- floor
- get sth in
- in words of one syllable idiom
- misspeak
- mouth
- phrase
- speak
- string
- text
- think
- use
- utterance
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