Metaphor | Take the words right out of someone’s mouth |
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Question Meaning | What do you mean? |
Meaning | To take the words right out of someone’s mouth means to say something that they were just going to say. (Sometimes people leave out the word “right”.) |
Question Example | Example |
Example | “It’s such a sunny day, do you feel like going for a walk?” “You took the words right out of my mouth! I was just going to ask you exactly the same thing.” |
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