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词汇 talk-out-of-both-sides-of-mouth
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talk out of both sides of your mouth


idiom
USdisapproving(alsospeak out of both sides of your mouth)
to say something that is the opposite of what you have said before, or to express different opinions about something in different situations, in a way that may deceive people:
The candidate has talked out of both sides of his mouth on the issue.
He accused politicians of misleading people who trust them, of speaking out of both sides of their mouths.
It sounds like the company is trying to talk out of both sides of its mouth on this.
So you think that the senator is speaking out of both sides of his mouth?
At the conference, he accused his fellow members of talking out of both sides of their mouths.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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a pack of liesidiom
artifice
bad faith
black is whiteidiom
cakeism
falsehood
falsification
feed someone a lineidiom
fib
fiction
lie
mythologically
mythologize
perjure
perjury
someone can talk!idiom
stretch the truthidiom
weasel words
white lie
whopper

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