foot-in-mouth disease
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of foot-in-mouth disease
1965–70; pun on foot-and-mouth disease, with allusion to foot-in-mouth
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What we are witnessing is another chronic flare-up of celebrity foot-in-mouth disease in the social media age.
From Salon ● Feb. 26, 2022
For the politicians who seem to be afflicted with foot-in-mouth disease, former public relations professional Chaya Srivatsa, who is also a life coach with an info-tech firm, has some good advice.
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2016
Smith is outspoken, and a natural and inevitable side-effect of such a condition is foot-in-mouth disease.
From Newsweek ● Mar. 26, 2015
But the party has yet to hear from a guy well-positioned to do it: Vice President Joe Biden, who has the populist touch progressives yearn for but struggles with chronic foot-in-mouth disease.
From US News ● Dec. 10, 2014
Liebling, who so mercilessly documented foot-in-mouth disease in his Wayward Press columns, could not have improved on Solberg's recollection of the reactions to Sputnik.
From Time Magazine Archive
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