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put_words_in_somebody's_mouth

put words in someone's mouth

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Verb

put words in someone's mouth (third-person singular simple present puts words in someone's mouth, present participle putting words in someone's mouth, simple past and past participle put words in someone's mouth)

  1. To imply or state that [someone] has said a thing; to erect a straw man.

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