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a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 4136 (MED) Fra your scending be mad cuth, All men sal yow haue in mouth.

c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 20 Man scholde haue in his mouthe the trouthe of the verray knyghte Ihesu Crist.

a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 45/1 It redowneth greatelye to the dishonoure..of the kinges highnesse..to haue it runne in euery mans mouth..that the Kynges brother shoulde bee fayne to keepe Saynctuarye.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 242^v Which sayinge was afterwarde in euery mans mouth.

1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 13 All man hes this word reformatioun in mothe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iv. ii. 188 Yong Arthurs death is common in their mouths . View more context for this quotation

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 447. ¶1 A Common-Saying..we often hear in the Mouths of the Vulgar.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xv. 505 The names of..the..chiefs of the conquering army, were in many mouths.

1909 D. Houston 'E Silkie Man (1935) 14 If we dinna finish 'ir [harvesting] 'iss week, we'll be e' mooth e' pairish.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxix. 478 It amused him to hear the cast-off locutions of duchesses in the mouth of this ageing prostitute.

1963 T. Ware Orthodox Church viii. 165 It is not without reason that the expressions ‘Soviet Church’ and ‘Soviet Patriarch’ have now become common in the mouth of Russians.

1993 Spy Nov. 34/1 The kind of lunch-bucket wisdom more frequently found in newspaper columns than in the mouths of actual New Yorkers.