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run off at the mouth
run off at the mouth
Sl. 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 mouth
(American informal) to talk a lot without saying anything important He's just another one of these politicians who run off at the mouth.
run off at the mouth
Talk 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 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.