"lie ill in one's mouth" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-lie ill in one's mouth.ogg Forms: lies ill in one's mouth [present, singular, third-person], lying ill in one's mouth [participle, present], lay ill in one's mouth [past], lain ill in one's mouth [participle, past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|lie<,,lay,lain> ill in one's mouth}} lie ill in one's mouth (third-person singular simple present lies ill in one's mouth, present participle lying ill in one's mouth, simple past lay ill in one's mouth, past participle lain ill in one's mouth)
  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) To sound artificial or contradictory. Tags: idiomatic, intransitive
    Sense id: en-lie_ill_in_one's_mouth-en-verb-kKV3h5Cp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2005 December 5, Brian Moore, “Little to be gained from this type of southern comfort”, in The Telegraph:",
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