"Be talking out of both sides of (his) mouth" nghĩa là gì?


"Be talking out of both sides of (one's) mouth" có thể được hiểu là cố gắng ủng hộ quan điểm trái ngược nhằm làm hài lòng người khác.

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Sivarama Swami appears to be either very confused, or, just like the corporate animal charities, to be talking out of both sides of his mouth—promoting the very things he claims to reject.

“But if the Prime Minister was going to be making those statements and not write a cheque to the people who were hurt the most by the federal government’s actions, then to me it would be talking out of both sides of his mouth.”

Dick Vitale seemed to be talking out of both sides of his mouth this weekend when the ESPN analyst urged people not to jump to conclusions after a report that Kentucky men’s basketball assistant Kenny Payne may have been the recipient of text messages describing under-the-table payments from Nike to high school players via the shoemaker’s Elite Youth Basketball League.

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