get wind in one's jaws
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[edit]get wind in one's jaws (third-person singular simple present gets wind in one's jaws, present participle getting wind in one's jaws, simple past got wind in one's jaws, past participle gotten wind in one's jaws)
- (idiomatic, informal, chiefly US Southern) To have too much to say; talk too much; run at the mouth; to speak one's mind or voice one's opinion about a matter; blabber
- 1979, The Albemarle Monthly - Volume 3, Issues 1-3, page 49:
- And anytime you got wind in your jaw you were automatically fired.
- 2002, Langston Hughes, Gloria Naylor, Children of the night:
- "Boy, you got wind in your jaws or somethin'? What you suckin' wind fer? Honh?"