foot-in-mouth disease

名词 n.
中文释义
美 /ˈfʊɾ.ɪnˌmaʊθ dəzˈiz/|/- dɪzˈiz/|[ˈɸʊɾ-]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tendency to make remarks that are embarrassingly wrong or inappropriate. humorous,idiomatic,uncountable
    — They attempt to straddle all issues and, consequently, when a slip occurs, the result is foot-in-mouth disease.

词源

Humorous conflation of foot-and-mouth disease and put one's foot in one's mouth.
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