all one's taste is in one's mouth

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all one's taste is in one's mouth

1. (idiomatic, mildly insulting) One lacks good taste in aesthetic or cultural matters.
   • 2008, Emily Carmichael, The Good, the Bad, and the Sexy‎^[1], →ISBN:

     “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.”

   • 2009, Katherine F. Robertson, Life in Violet, →ISBN, page 176:

     “Their cars are maroon and red. You should see them in the driveway.” He shuddered. “All his taste is in his mouth.”

   • 2013, Kit Reed, The Story Until Now: A Great Big Book of Stories, →ISBN, page 373:

     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.