| 词汇 | running off at the mouth |
| 释义 | (redirected from running off at the mouth)run off at the mouth1. To speak without discretion; to speak too loudly or freely, especially about sensitive topics or information. We would have gotten away with our plan if your dumb cousin hadn't started running off at the mouth all over town. I figured it went without saying that I didn't want to talk about my divorce at Daniel's wedding, but you just had to go and run off at the mouth like that! 2. To be annoyingly or overbearingly talkative, especially in a bragging or boastful manner. There's some guy at the other end of the bar running off at the mouth about how far he can throw a football. run off at the mouthSl. to talk too much. I wish you would stop running off at the mouth. Tom runs off at the mouth too much. I wish he would temper his remarks. run off at the mouthTalk incessantly, babble, as in Wilbur is always running off at the mouth about his investments. This idiom transfers a flow of water to an unending flow of words. [Slang; c. 1900] run off at the mouthtalk excessively or indiscreetly. North American informalrun off at the ˈmouth(American English, informal) talk too much, in a way that is not sensible: I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to run off at the mouth like that.run off at the mouth in. to talk too much; to have diarrhea of the mouth. Tom runs off at the mouth too much. I wish he would temper his remarks. run off at the mouth, toTo talk incessantly. The image conveyed is that of a river of words flowing ceaselessly from someone’s mouth, a case of logorrhea (verbal diarrhea). An American slang term dating from about 1900, it was defined in a 1909 issue of Dialect Notes. “I’m a pig coming over here and running off at the mouth,” wrote Alison Lurie (Love and Friendship, 1962). |
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