wash one's mouth out
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wash one's mouth out (third-person singular simple present washes one's mouth out, present participle washing one's mouth out, simple past and past participle washed one's mouth out)
- (often imperative) To watch one's mouth, especially regarding swear words.
- 1970, Alline Bullock (lyrics), “Funkier Than a Mosquito's Tweeter”, in Workin’ Together, performed by Ike & Tina Turner:
- Wash out your mouth, your lies are gettin' rusty
- 1999 November 19, “A pother of pedants”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Some Tory MPs think the Queen needs to wash her mouth out.
- 2011 March 23, “James Cameron Shines like a star”, in The Guardian[2], retrieved 2021-11-12:
- But anybody who says Cameron was hedging his bets better had wash their mouth out; this was nothing more than the kind of away day where only the top names rock up.
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