shoot one's mouth off

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   speak spontaneously and without restraint

   “She always shoots her mouth off and says things she later regrets”

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Questions about shoot one's mouth off

What does shoot one's mouth off mean?

shoot one's mouth off means "speak spontaneously and without restraint".

What is another word for shoot one's mouth off?

Close synonyms include lip off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shoot one's mouth off a common word?

shoot one's mouth off is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.