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.
"Last night I didn't get out until 10, " Klein said through a mouthful of a rushed lunch.
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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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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.
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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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.
But when they actually had a big mouthful of greasy, crunchy, salty, fried potatoes, the powerful gustatory experience caused all thoughts of chocolate or sardines to evaporate.
But having sipped a tiny mouthful of the half-fermented vintage - which will be called The Manuscript, in reference to the story about Mr Mandela burying his autobiography in the prison garden - I can tell you it tastes just fine.
Adult males have very hollow abdomens and will not be much of a mouthful, but the females are filled with fat.
That mouthful of a malady left these customers, most of them women, with prolonged boils on their lower legs and some long-term scars.
They started another racing-car company, this one with the awful mouthful of a name, Officina Specializzata Costruzione Automobili Fratelli Maserati , or what came to be known as OSCA .
"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.
But sometimes, a white can work well if, say, the pizza is decorated with several cheeses or anchovies, in which case Fiano is a wonderful pairing, with the mineral zip at the end of each mouthful leaving one craving a second slice.
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If they can fit that mouthful of media players on a Teleprompter.
And here is the lady herself, surprisingly diminutive (birdlike, you might say), with a wicked grin that reveals her trademark mouthful of gold teeth.
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One dish can comprise a number of elements, giving the diner one different mouthful after another.
That's a mouthful. (Laughter.) Machine shops and automotive mechanics were some of the first classes you could take.
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.
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