But the language, which sounds like Italian spoken through a mouthful of peanut butter, is beginning to rebound.
Leaning out of the window can still mean being rewarded with a mouthful of tropical foliage.
Anyway, that brings me back to the Here Maps app for iOS, a mouthful.
"Last night I didn't get out until 10, " Klein said through a mouthful of a rushed lunch.
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However you pronounce it, it's a mouthful that is really three words in Icelandic meaning island mountain glacier.
He came upon Pedro Beato, a boyish six-foot-four-inch rookie pitcher with a broad smile displaying a mouthful of braces.
Don't try to be funny by playing thirty seconds of your favorite song or talk with a mouthful of food.
Up-and-coming industry types are subtly encouraged by mentors to think twice before being seen with a mouthful of funnel cake.
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That's a mouthful. (Laughter.) Machine shops and automotive mechanics were some of the first classes you could take.
It is only after these two qualities have been compared that the brain assesses how pleasant a mouthful actually is.
Adult males have very hollow abdomens and will not be much of a mouthful, but the females are filled with fat.
The government is also likely to make sure that the price paid for Yuganskneftegaz is a mouthful local bidders are able to swallow.
The technical question that Congress is now facing involves a mouthful: whether terrestrial radio stations should pay performance royalties for the music they play.
But the network says a mouthful about his social media prowess.
You can blame that miscommunication on a mouthful of Tart's delicious meringue, but there is truth to the idea that Dixon prefers tangible pleasures to purely conceptual ones.
Chagrined, I swam back to the boat for a spear, while the rest of the guys practiced the art of deep diving without gulping a mouthful of sea water.
In that case, scientists were able to capture footage of the dolphins herding a ball of fish, and appearing to take turns to dive through the ball for a mouthful.
"We're lucky if some of them take more than a mouthful, " laments Short, who once had three cans of tinned haggis confiscated by customs officials on arrival at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport.
Ben Stiller stars as Ted, who we see at the beginning of the film as a shy high school student with a mouthful of braces that make his face look like the grill of a 1957 Buick.
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The names are a mouthful and the play-by-play guys seemingly had to keep mouthing them (no wonder, considering the game sponsors are also broadcast sponsors) while pretending not to notice how often the comp-seat "fans" deserted the stands after one good toddy.
Still under the influence of the somewhat debilitating effects of eating two Philly Cheesesteaks in a row, I pick up a copy of the latest issue of Forbes from the newsstand, tap and pay, slurp a mouthful of cold Starbucks (got distracted in duty free), and fire up my phone.
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Bernie Marcus used to warn salesclerks that he would bite off the finger of the next one he caught pointing a customer toward where to find something. (The clerk is supposed to walk you there and chat you up about your project along the way.) Marcus would have a mouthful of digits if he had followed this reporter over the last few weeks.
Yet even for someone used to acquisitions, Saks's 96 stores represent a considerable mouthful.
It tasted exactly as I expected: a porky mouthful aided by gravy.
Then there is the word sequester -- a technical mouthful that doesn't quite convey the same drama and sizzle as "fiscal cliff, " Zelizer said.
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