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take the words out of mouth

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take the words out of someone's mouth

Fig. to say something just before someone else was going to say the same thing; to say something that someone who agrees with you might have said. That is exactly right! You took the words right out of my mouth! When you said "expensive," you took the words right out of my mouth!

See also: mouth, of, out, take, word

take the words (right) out of somebody's mouth

to say exactly what someone else is about to say I was just going to mention that, but you took the words right out of my mouth.

See also: mouth, of, out, take, word

take the words out of somebody's mouth

to say exactly what someone else was going to say or what they were thinking I was just going to mention that, but you took the words right out of my mouth.

See also: mouth, of, out, take, word