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in the mouth
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Idioms and Phrases
see down in the dumps (mouth) ; look a gift horse in the mouth .Discover More
Example Sentences
Well, I reckon it's about time, an' the best thing you can do, for you look sort o' pinin' an' down-in-the-mouth.
"Cherries-in-the-mouth," a somewhat aged and highly-painted Indian, was very much taken with one of the missionaries.
I have always put the utmost confidence in you; but, my good fellow, you must not come to me in this down-in-the-mouth way.
A few years ago he was growing frightfully down-in-the-mouth.
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