what is a plum in your mouth

[duiter]

Hi all,

What is a plum in your mouth ?

Is this idiom commonly used/spoken by all people walking at high street in UK ?

in USA or Australia ?


Many thanks

 

[vil]

speak with a plum in mouth - Idioms - by the Free Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia.

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[corum]

speak with a hot potato in your mouth :up:

 

[5jj]

speak with a hot potato in your mouth :up:

:-? I have never heard that expression used in this way. Where did you hear that, Corum?

 

[corum]

:-? I have never heard that expression used in this way. Where did you hear that, Corum?

I heard it in South Africa once (from a legal professional). In what way did you hear it used?

 

[corum]

287 hits

"speak with a hot potato in * mouth" - Google Search

 

[5jj]

Thanks for the link, Corum. I noticed that, although a small number of the googled sites referred to the British upper-class accent, most referred to how people from different Scandinavian countries sound to each other, some to how Americans sound and a couple to how speakers of different French dialects in Quebec sound.

So, if one wishes to use an idiomatic expression for the way in which upper-class English people speak, a plum in one's mouth is probably more widely recognised than a hot potato.