run one's mouth

A form of run at the mouth — To speak ceaselessly or without end.

Meanings

verbrun 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)

present singular third person runs one's mouth · participle present running one's mouth · past ran one's mouth

  1. alternativeAlternative form of run at the mouth.

    Just cause I don’t run my mouth don’t mean I got nothing to say

    2003, Mike Cooley, Marry Me
    1 more example

    “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.

    2018, Nnedi Okorafor, Who Fears Death, HarperVoyager, page 11
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