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out of the mouths of babes
Idioms and Phrases
Young and inexperienced persons often can be remarkably wise, as in She's only six but she said, quite rightly, that Harry was afraid of the sitter—out of the mouths of babes, Mother said . This expression is a shortening and revision of expressions in the Old and New Testaments of the Bible. In Psalms 8:2, God ordains strength out of the mouth of babes and sucklings; in Matthew 21:16, praise comes from this source. Later generations changed strength and praise to wisdom.Example Sentences
Out of the mouths of babes, eh?
“Out of the mouths of babes seemed the most palatable way to introduce Blacks to the funny pages,†she wrote.
The basic premise — not too far removed from the television show “Kids Say the Darndest Things,†or the saying “out of the mouths of babes†— is that children are natural and underrated philosophers.
This can be summarized as the “out of the mouths of babes†reverse-learning paradigm.
Out of the mouths of babes: “My 13-year-old used a gift card he received for Christmas, but with tax, the total came to 22 cents more than the value of the card. I gave him the money and told him not to worry about it. He taped 22 cents to a note that said, ‘I don’t like being in debt.’
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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