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all one's taste is in one's mouth en · X
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(idiomatic, qualifier:mildly insulting) One lacks good taste in aesthetic or cultural matters.
“Their cars are maroon and red. You should see them in the driveway.” He shuddered. “All his taste is in his mouth.”
2009, Katherine F. Robertson, Life in Violet, →ISBN, page 176:It's all about vintage shag rugs in bad colors and milk crates stuffed with magazines and board-and-brick bookcases like kids make in graduate school, which makes me wonder whether all her taste is in her mouth.
2013, Kit Reed, The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories, →ISBN, page 373:She doesn't like my decorating style, eh? Well, that's because all her taste is in her mouth!
“I pay to get into the movies just like everybody else, and I sure wouldn't waste my money on you.”
“That's because all your taste is in your mouth.”
2008, Emily Carmichael, The Good, the Bad, and the Sexy, →ISBN:
Relateds
bad taste in one's mouth · untasteful