| born with a silver spoon in one's mouth |
born to wealthy parents and therefore having had privileges that others have not had. |
| down in the mouth |
depressed; sad. |
| foot-and-mouth disease |
a severe, very contagious disease of animals such as sheep and cattle, characterized by fever and blisters in the mouth and around the feet or hooves, the teats, and the udder; hoof-and-mouth disease. |
| hand to mouth |
in a way that provides only for one's barest needs at the present time without any provision for the future. |
| hand-to-mouth |
offering or providing only the barest necessities. |
| hoof-and-mouth disease |
see "foot-and-mouth disease." |
| look a gift horse in the mouth |
to be critical of something received as a gift. |
| mouth off |
(slang) to speak obnoxiously. |
| mouth organ |
a harmonica. |
| mouth-to-mouth |
of, pertaining to, or being a method to blow air directly into the lungs of someone who is not breathing on his or her own. |
| put one's foot in one's mouth |
to say something regrettable, sometimes revealing one's own or another's secret by accident or revealing an opinion or assumption that should not have been stated openly. |
| put words in one's mouth |
to misinterpret or misrepresent what someone has said. |
| trench mouth |
an infectious ulceration of the mouth and throat caused by bacteria. |