shoot your mouth off

Meaning

1. 1

   shoot your mouth off (about sth)

   to talk with too much pride about sth

2. 2

   shoot your mouth off (about sth)

   to talk about sth that is private or secret

In the movies · 1

• I think he keeps shooting his mouth off about the Bureau and nobody knows what to do with him, so we tag him as a deviant and run him out of the building.Breach2007
• You walk in here shooting your fucking mouth off like you don't give a fuck if it gets shot off.Lucky Number Slevin2006

Learn it in full scenes

• Breach2007
  • Eric Is Assigned to Watch Hanssen
  • Kate Recruits Eric to Spy on Hanssen
  • Hanssen Interrogates His New Assistant

From the same entry

• be shot of
• have shot your bolt
• be like shooting fish in a barrel
• shoot the breeze
• shoot from the hip
• shoot yourself in the foot
• shoot it out
• shoot the messenger
• shoot the rapids
• shoot down
• shoot for
• shoot off