Put your Foot in your Mouth
What it means
Say the exact wrong thing, usually to the one person it will wound.
Where it comes from
The older phrase was simply put your foot in it, meaning to blunder. The mouth arrived later, and produced the pun foot in mouth disease, borrowed from the cattle plague of a similar name.
The puzzle it came from
Put your Foot in your Mouth was the answer to the Phrasicle of June 12, 2025. The clue read ____ your ____ in your ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.
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day
dream
big
mouth
wash
go
long
shot
put
down
bare
foot
path
forward
march
after
life
jacket
pocket
square
Phrasicle: Put your Foot in your Mouth