you kiss your mother with that mouth

English

Phrase

(do) you kiss your mother with that mouth?

1. (rhetorical question, informal, sarcastic) Used to indicate that the other person's speech has become too obscene or vulgar.

   Synonyms: you kiss your father with that mouth, you kiss your girlfriend with that mouth, you kiss your grandmother with that mouth, you kiss your grandfather with that mouth

   • 1983, Reinhold Aman, Maledicta, Volume 6, Issues 1-2, Maledicta Press, page #209:

     No wonder then that I felt compelled when coming upon Tony and John's contest-in-insults to glare and say, "Hey, you kiss your mother with that mouth?"

   • 1998, Anna Quindlen, Black and Blue, Wheeler Pub., page #153:

     "Chris doesn't like my hair up. I don't like my hair up. I'm not wearing my fucking hair up." ― "You kiss your mother with that mouth?"

   • 2004, Tim McCleaf, For They Know Not What They Do: Two Novellas, iUniverse, page 64:

     Serena, always the charmer. Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?

   • 2009, Ryan Russell, Johnny Long, Timothy Mullen, Stealing the Network: The Complete Series Collector's Edition, Final Chapter, and DVD: The Complete Series, Syngress, page 469:

     "You kiss your mother with that mouth?" mocked the man-who-was-ten. Matthew replied, "No, but I kiss yours!"

Translations

rhetorical question used to indicate that the other person's speech has become too obscene or vulgar

• Spanish: con esa boca comes pan