put your foot in your mouth
To make an embarrassing or tactless blunder when speaking: “Rob tries to say nice things, but he always ends up putting his foot in his mouth.”
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put-upon, put up or shut up, put up with, put wise, put words in someone's mouth, put your foot in your mouth, putz, PUVA, Puvis de Chavannes, Puyallup, Puy-de-Dôme
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