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(verb) to speak in a rude way

Example Sentence:

The angry teenager mouthed off to his mother, because he didn’t want to take Ballet lessons.
If you keep mouthing off to me I’m going to kick you out of the house.

The boss always mouths off to his employees about the company’s problems.

Similar idioms:

  1. kick someone out
  2. get along like a house on fire
  3. get to the point
  4. cut to the chase
  5. chew someone out
  6. talk over
  7. put up with
  8. speak one’s mind

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