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Mouth

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Down in the mouth. (See under Down.)

His mouth was made, he was trained or reduced to obedience, like a horse trained to the bit.

At first, of course, the fireworker showed fight… . but in the end ‘his mouth was made,ʹ his paces formed, and he became a very serviceable and willing animal.”—Le Fanu: House in the Churchyard, ch. xcix.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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