put foot in mouth

[Wilson Gray]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
> The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (1997) has an entry for
> "put one's foot in one's mouth": Say something foolish, embarrassing,
> or tactless. AHDI says the expression "dates from around 1900."

1903: "Toodles ... put his foot in his mouth."

http://goo.gl/e5uUs

or look in GB under

"put his foot in his mouth"


But none of these cites has anything to do with "_the origin_ of
'putting your foot in your mouth'," whatever the questioner may
actually intend by that.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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