put one’s foot in one’s mouth

(idiom) to say something that is really embarrassing

Example Sentences:

A: This is a great party.
B: Yeah it is!
A: Whose house is this? It is so ugly.
B: It’s my house.
A: Oh. I just put my foot in my mouth.

Charles put his foot in his mouth when he asked the overweight girl if she was pregnant.

After telling the student that he was going to fail the class, the professor put his foot in his mouth when the student got 100% on the final exam.

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Similar idioms:

1. eat one’s words
2. put one’s money where one’s mouth is
3. shoot oneself in the foot
4. set foot
5. shoot one’s mouth off
6. put one’s best foot forward
7. look a gift horse in the mouth
8. spill the beans
9. see someone
10. see through someone
11. tip my hat to someone
12. live from hand to mouth
13. do or die
14. on foot
15. have one’s heart in one’s mouth