Meanings
alternative is there a mouse in your pocket
- informalrhetoricsarcasticUsed as a response to statements starting with "we," usually indicating the speaker does not want to be involved in the interlocutor's statements.
Your back teeth don't know what your front teeth are saying. 'We know nothing about anything.' Who's we, Connors, you got a mouse in your pocket?
1979, Rosemary Edelman, Fireworks: a novel, →ISBN, page 52Synonyms: you got a mouse in your purse
Synonyms & antonyms
phraseUsed as a response to statements starting with "we," usually indicating the speaker does not want to be involved in the interlocutor's statements.
Origin
From the idea of another referent included in "we," besides the speaker, being invisible.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
you got a mouse in your pocket. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/you%20got%20a%20mouse%20in%20your%20pocket
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