mouthful

Long encumbered by a mouthful of metal, Zachary was told by his parents Friday that he could leave his fifth-grade class early because he had an orthodontist appointment to get his braces removed.

Not striking a chord is perhaps a better-case scenario for an intellectual/experimental opera gone wrong — in 1964, an audience in Florence found the dissonant music of Alois Haba's "Matka" so painful, like someone "spitting out a mouthful of rusty nails," that they began walking out by the end of the first scene.

“It’s an absolute mouthful to sing, with a lot of wordage,” he says.

Suddenly, webs seem to line every window frame and hover in midair — threatening you with a mouthful of silk.

He accidentally swallowed a mouthful of water in the process - but remarked that it tasted fine.