shoot from the lip

Definitions

To speak confidently and unhesitantly but without careful forethought or a reliable knowledge of important facts pertaining to the subject matter.

idiomatic

Examples

“[A] pair of suburban slickers […] made the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour the most popular new TV show⟳ of the season. They did it by shooting from the lip, dauntlessly laying down a crossfire of patter that is often more fizzle than sizzle.”

“In a letter to Mr. Watt this week, Mr. Quitberg suggested that the Secetary had been shooting from the lip again. "You have⟳ never met me and until that moment had undoubtedly never heard of me," he wrote.”

“He is, as most Americans have⟳ now gathered, a blunt fellow, prone to shoot⟳ from the lip. He often speaks before he thinks.”

“Darrel Reid used to shoot⟳ from the lip. Few Canadian evangelists can match⟳ his record⟳ for the controversial quote, whether accusing single moms of using welfare to have⟳ babies or likening hate⟳ crime laws protecting gays and lesbians to Nazi tyranny.”

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