put words in/into sb's mouth
to suggest that someone meant one thing when really they meant another:
Stop putting words in my mouth - I didn't say you looked fat in the red dress - I merely said you looked very slim in the black!
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Meaning & significance
- add
- add up to sth
- badge
- connotation
- denotation
- drive
- hermeneutic
- hermeneutics
- how
- loaded
- mean
- meaning
- modality
- other
- pregnant
- significantly
- signification
- signify
- speak to sb idiom
- word
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