what is the origin of the idiom "have your heart in your mouth"?
100940
Homer used this expression thousands of years years ago in his famous epic poem the Iliad. When you are terrified, your heart starts pounding violently and there's a choking feeling in your throat. Homer reffered to that feeling as having "your heart in your mouth". For centuries that's the way many people have described the feeling of extreme terror or dread.\nMay have mispelled a ton of words, but oh well :P
1070490
'... It’s a fairly common American expression, known for much of the twentieth century. But it’s one about which almost no information exists, at least in the two dozen or so reference books I’ve consulted. William and Mary Morris, in their Morris Dictionary of Word and Phrase Origins, confess to the same difficulty. A handbasket is just a basket to be carried in the hand (my thanks to the Oxford English Dictionary for that gem of definition). The Dictionary of American Regional English records to go to heaven in a handbasket rather earlier than the alternative, which doesn’t appear in print until the 1940s (Walt Quader tells me that Burton Stevenson included a citation in his Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases from Bayard Kendrick’s The Odor of Violets, published in 1941). But DARE quotes a related expression from 1714: “A committee brought in something about Piscataqua. Govr said he would give his head in a Handbasket as soon as he would pass it”, which suggests that it, or at least phrases like it, have been around in the spoken language for a long time. For example, there’s an even older expression, to go to heaven in a wheelbarrow, recorded as early as 1629, which also meant “to go to hell”. I can only assume that the alliteration of the hs has had a lot to do with the success of the various phrases, and that perhaps handbasket suggests something easily and speedily done.'
123828
I say it whenever I feel like it. That way it is from the heart. :)
79395
actually this question was AOL's home page the other day I believe. The saying came from the horse racing track. People would offer a tip and a horse that would win and if was an insider ( jockey, trainer, ect)  or reliable tip they would say it came "straight from the horses mouth"
1026949
Say it from the heart.
64214
THe point of the phrase is that once you eat your cake, you no longer have it. The first source mentioning it is a book of proverbs by John Heywood in 1546.
418515
Most literally translating to "trying to get a reaction" out of somebody. Originated from a 16th century technique to determine death by literally blowing tobacco smoke into someone's anus (through a long pipe) - where a reaction indicated that the person was still alive.
1138046
I think it comes from medevil times when they believed that if you actually went and got some of the hair of the dog that had bitten you it would heal faster or something. I know it is something along those lines. Actually here this is from wikipedia:\n\n"The origin of the phrase is unclear, but instances of the phrase have appeared in English literature since the time of Shakespeare. E. Cobham Brewer writes in the Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898): "In Scotland it is a popular belief that a few hairs of the dog that bit you applied to the wound will prevent evil consequences."
290428
The same one I gave your mom after i f*cked her brains out, you stupid, silly assh*le: your mouth is for swallowing, not speaking.\n\nhow was that?  :-)
1122350
If someone told you that you could fit your fist into your mouth, they would probably not be very happy with you. Sure, it could literally mean jamming your fist in your mouth, but it usually means you can't keep your mouth shut or that you have a big mouth. You either told a secret or something you weren't supposed to tell, or you don't know when to shut up!
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some idioms :\n\nTu es la prunelle de mes yeux \n(you are the pupil of my eye)\n\nMon coeur sera toujours pour toi\n(my heart will be forever for you)\n\nJe ne pense qu'à toi\n(I think about only you)\n\nJe t'aime du fond du coeur\n(I love you from my heart (deep heart))\n\nJe suis malade d'amour pour toi\n(I'm sik of love for you)\n\nMon petit coeur\n(my little heart)\n\n....\nDon Juan or Romeo :)
86615
It often implies that you have made a serious mistake, but more strictly it indicates that something you have done (or some turn of events) has left you looking extremely embarrassed or foolish.\nIt feels like one of those expressions that have been around for ever, but the evidence suggest that it’s an American expression from the middle of last century (its first known appearance was in an American television series about 1951). It’s possible, though, that it is somewhat older, though I haven’t been able to find it in my large collection of out-of-copyright e-texts, which suggests it is more recent than the 1920s.\nI know of two possibilities for where it came from. My assumption to start with was that it was a comment on a minor social gaffe at a meal, when poor manners or sloppy eating left egg around your mouth. The late John Ciardi, however, suggested an origin in the lower and more rowdy kind of theatrical performance, in which an incompetent actor would have been pelted with eggs and forced off the stage.\nAfter I wrote the first version of this piece, subscriber Cal Clifford put a possible new perspective on he expression by mentioning egg-sucking dogs: “Occasionally, a trusted, working farm dog would develop the bad habit of taking eggs from nests and eating them, turning himself from asset into liability.” I found several examples of the term, including this from Glengarry School Days by Ralph Connor, dated 1902: “His chief business was the doing away with dogs of ill-repute in the country; vicious dogs, sheep-killing dogs, egg-sucking dogs, were committed to Alan’s dread custody, and often he would be seen leading off his wretched victims to his den in the woods, whence they never returned.” And in Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp, by Annie Roe Carr (of about 1919): “He’s a miserable, fox-faced scoundrel, and I’ve no more use for him than I have for an egg-sucking dog.” So it is just possible that the expression might be a figurative extension from that of a dog found with egg around its muzzle, mute evidence of depravity.
945180
I've used that expression with friends before as a joke. It's a silly over-doing-it way of saying that you're great.\n\nA friend of mine who's female brought me a soda one day without me asking (long story but it was super hot that day and we were working outdoors) and I said, "Oh my god, marry me!" We had a good chuckle about it but that's all. Likewise another time I got a backrub from a female friend and I was enjoying it so much I said, "Will you have my children?" \n\nIf he said it was a joke, it probably was. He just thinks you're really cool. he may even think you're hot, but he's still probably joking.
860873
Do you mean "to put your foot in it"?\nIt means to make a blunder, a faux pas, an indiscretion. "Whoops. What have I said?" sort of thing.
568829
Where the poem originates, I don't know. However, when ice-cream was first produced in mass, in Victorian England, it would be sold on little glass holders known as 'penny licks', which might explain the 'penny a lump'.
526069
Dear Smile,\n\nThere is an old saying ... To thine own self be true.\n\nYou will do well to observe this.\n\nIf nothing else, it means being honest with yourself, and as much as possible, with others.\n\nThere is another old saying ... use the KISS method.\n\nKeep It Simple, Stupid\n\nPeople clutter up their lives with things and people that really are not good for them.  Then they end up getting stressed out and not really knowing why.\n\nHope this helps.
308852
It means to ejaculate in someones mouth.