[Words and their stories] Mouth

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[0:17.4] Words and their stories
[0:20.3] people use their mouths for many things
[0:24.2] they eat, talk
[0:26.4] shout and sing
[0:28.4] the smile and they case
[0:30.8] in the English language
[0:32.6] their are many expressions using the word mouth
[0:36.9] but some of them are not so nice
[0:40.2] for example, if you say that thing about a person
[0:44.4] the person might protest
[0:46.3] and say 
[0:47.6] do not that bad month me
[0:50.3] sometimes people say something to a friend or family member
[0:55.3] that they later regret because that hurt that person's feelings
[1:00.2] or they tell the person something they were not supposed to tell
[1:05.8] speak might say I really put my food in my mouth this time
[1:11.4] If this should happen, the speaker might feel 
[1:13.1] down in the mouth.
[1:16.9] another words
[1:18.2] he might fell say for say the wrong thing
[1:23.6] and situation is when someone
[1:26.9] fall 
[1:31.2] the other person might protest
[1:33.7] I did not say that
[1:35.7] do not put words in my mouth
[1:39.2] information is often spread through word of mouth
[1:44.0] this is general communication between people.
[1:47.8] like France talking to each other
[1:51.1] how do hear about that new movie? someone might ask.
[1:55.9] Oh, by word of mouth
[1:58.9] a more official way of getting information
[2:02.6] is through a company or government mouth piece
[2:07.1] this is an official spoke person
[2:10.7] Government-runed media can also call mouth piece
[2:17.4] sometimes when one person is speaking
[2:21.2] he says the same thing that his friend was going to say
[2:27.2] when this happens
[2:28.7] the friend might say
[2:30.9] you took the words right out of my mouth
[2:35.8] sometimes
[2:36.8] a person has a bad or unpleasant experience with another person
[2:43.1] he might say that experience
[2:45.9] left a bad taste in my mouth
[2:49.5] or the person might have had a very frightened experience
[2:55.2] like being chased by an angry
[2:56.0] dog
[3:00.2] he might say
[3:01.5] I had my heart to my mouth
[3:06.5] some people have lots of money
[3:09.7] because they were born in to a very rich family
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[3:17.8] you might such a person
[3:20.5] was born with a silver spoon in his mouth
[3:25.9] this rich person
[3:28.2] is the opposite of a person who lives
[3:31.4] form hand to mouth
[3:34.1] this person is very poor
[3:37.1] and only have enough money for the important thing in life
[3:42.7] like food 

[3:45.6] parents might sometime withhold sweet food from a child
[3:51.0] as a form of punishment for saying bad things
[3:55.8] for example,
[3:57.0] if a child said thing she should not say to her parents
[4:02.4] she might be described as 
[4:05.2] an mouthy child
[4:07.6] parents might even tell the child
[4:10.4] to stop mouthing off
[4:13.3] but enough of all this talk
[4:16.3] I have being running my mouth long enough
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