outdoor voice
English
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editoutdoor voice (plural outdoor voices)
- A loud voice used when one wants to be heard over noise or from a distance, or be assertive or emphatic.
- 2012, Leigh Peyton Mikovich, The Bug, the Pea, and Me: 52 Devotions of Love and Laughter, CrossBooks, →ISBN, page 96:
- My youngest daughter is particularly fond of an “outside voice.” We'll be quietly eating our meal and the Pea, who sits right beside me, will recount her day as if her words must rise above the very roar of a pep rally crowd.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:outdoor voice.