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单词 to take the words out of a person's mouth
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to take the words (also †tales) out of a person's mouth
g. to put words into a person's mouth and variants: (a) to tell a person what to say; (b) to represent a person as having uttered (words or statements specified or unspecified). to take the words (also †tales) out of a person's mouth: to anticipate what a person is about to say.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > antecedence or being earlier > occur earlier or go before [verb (intransitive)] > act in advance or anticipate > anticipate what someone was about to say
to take the words (also tales) out of a person's mouth1530
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) 2 Kings xiv. 3 Joab forsoþe putte the woordes in hir mouth.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 751/1 It is no good maner to take the worde out of my mouthe, or I have made an ende of my tale.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 100 The Pope..takyng their wordes out of their mouthes, sayd [etc.].
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V iv. vii. 41 Tis not well done to take the tale out Of a mans mouth, ere it is made an end.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (2 Pet. iii. 16) When we put words into the mouths of these oracles by mis-inferences or mis-applications.
1725 A. Pope Wks. Shakespear I. Pref. p. xix Many speeches also were put into the mouths of wrong persons, where the Author now seems chargeable with making them speak out of character.
1751 E. Moore Gil Blas iv. 70 All we know of the Matter is from Scoundrel Postboys and lying Inn-keepers—And then, Sir, you were forc'd to put Words into their Mouths.
1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray I. xv. 306 Mrs. Rowan, as she again took the words out of her friend's mouth, smiled upon her with a smile of great efficacy.
1870 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (ed. 2) I. App. 627 The strong legitimist harangue which is put into his mouth by Richer.
1957 Listener 6 Aug. 218/1 Mr. Holden certainly took the words right out of my mouth when he asked one of them: ‘What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?’
1973 D. Shannon No Holiday iv. 43 ‘After all, it was—’ ‘To take the words out of your mouth, broad daylight,’ said Hackett.
1981 M. West Clowns of God i. 29 Don't put the words in my mouth, Carl!
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