run one's mouth

English

Verb

run one's mouth (third-person singular simple present runs one's mouth, present participle running one's mouth, simple past ran one's mouth, past participle run one's mouth)

  1. Alternative form of run at the mouth.
    • 2003, Mike Cooley, Marry Me:
      Just cause I don’t run my mouth don’t mean I got nothing to say
    • 2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 11:
      “What was your wife like?” I asked one day. I was really just running my mouth. I was more interested in the small stack of bread he’d bought me.

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