foot-in-mouth disease

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Definition of foot-in-mouth disease in English English dictionary

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foot-in-mouth disease

A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate

Maybe you suffer from foot-in-mouth disease, too, at least occasionally. If so, then I expect you've also learned about the remedy.

Hyphenation

foot-in-mouth dis-ease

Etymology

() Humorous conflation of foot-and-mouth disease and put one's foot in one's mouth.