you kiss your mother with that mouth

phrase

Used to indicate that the other person's speech has become too obscene or vulgar.

Meanings

phraseyou kiss your mother with that mouth?
  1. informalrhetoricsarcasticUsed to indicate that the other person's speech has become too obscene or vulgar.

    Serena, always the charmer. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

    2004, Tim McCleaf, For They Know Not What They Do: Two Novellas, iUniverse, page 64
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    No wonder then that I felt compelled when coming upon Tony and John's contest-in-insults to glare and say, "Hey, you kiss your mother with that mouth?"

    1983, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta, Volume 6, Issues 1-2, Maledicta Press, page #209

    "Chris doesn't like my hair up. I don't like my hair up. I'm not wearing my fucking hair up." ― "You kiss your mother with that mouth?"

    1998, Anna Quindlen, Black and Blue, Wheeler Pub., page #153

    "You kiss your mother with that mouth?" mocked the man-who-was-ten. Matthew replied, "No, but I kiss yours!"

    2009, Ryan Russell, Johnny Long, Timothy Mullen, Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector's Edition, Final Chapter, and DVD: The Complete Series, Syngress, page 469

    Synonyms: you kiss your father with that mouth, you kiss your girlfriend with that mouth, you kiss your grandmother with that mouth, you kiss your grandfather with that mouth

Synonyms & antonyms

Translations

Dutch kus je je moeder met die mond?
  • kus je je moeder met die mond?rhetorical question used to indicate that the other person's speech has become too obscene or vulgar
Spanish con esa boca comes pan
  • con esa boca comes panrhetorical question used to indicate that the other person's speech has become too obscene or vulgar
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Chicago

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