poor-mouth
Example Sentences
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The next time you hear Gov. Rick Scott or leaders in the Florida Legislature cry poor mouth as an excuse for not investing more in a chronically neglected area of the budget - say, mental-health care or raises for public employees - here’s a number to remember: $253 million.
From Washington Times
If American readers know any of them, it is almost certainly Flann O’Brien’s hilarious “The Poor Mouth,” the “bad story about the hard life” of Bonaparte O’Coonassa, born into poverty among the sheep and pigs and potatoes.
From Washington Post
Instead of making tough choices, NIH Director Collins has chosen to cry poor mouth.
From Forbes
Very hot drinks, high-temperature cooking methods and poor mouth hygiene have also been linked to the disease, it said.
From BBC
Worth seeing at the in Edinburgh over the next week: the early Beckett novella, First Love, Flann O'Brien's The Poor Mouth and Peter Arnott's Why Do You Stand There in the Rain? which had too short a run at Edinburgh last year and which deals with the 1932 march on Washington by second world war veterans.
From The Guardian
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