get wind in one's jaws

English

Alternative forms

• get wind in one's jaw, have wind in one's jaws, have wind in one's jaw

Verb

get wind in one's jaws (third-person singular simple present gets wind in one's jaws, present participle getting wind in one's jaws, simple past got wind in one's jaws, past participle gotten wind in one's jaws)

1. (idiomatic, informal, chiefly US Southern) To have too much to say; talk too much; run at the mouth; to speak one's mind or voice one's opinion about a matter; blabber
   • 1979, The Albemarle Monthly - Volume 3, Issues 1-3, page 49:

     And anytime you got wind in your jaw you were automatically fired.

   • 2002, Langston Hughes, Gloria Naylor, Children of the night:

     "Boy, you got wind in your jaws or somethin'? What you suckin' wind fer? Honh?"

See also

• have words
• spout off