swear like a sailor

To use profanities or vulgar language very freely and fluently. (An allusion to the rough language presumed to be used by military personnel.) My little sister has been swearing like a sailor ever since she started learning bad words. My granny is the sweetest old lady you'll ever meet, but she swears like a sailor when she gets on the topic of something or someone she doesn't like.

词组	swear like a sailor
释义	swear like a sailor swear like a sailor To use profanities or vulgar language very freely and fluently. (An allusion to the rough language presumed to be used by military personnel.) My little sister has been swearing like a sailor ever since she started learning bad words. My granny is the sweetest old lady you'll ever meet, but she swears like a sailor when she gets on the topic of something or someone she doesn't like. See also: like, sailor, swear Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. See also: sailor curse like a sailor cuss like a sailor swear like a trooper swear like a trooper, to trooper curse like a trooper cuss like a trooper language that could/would fry bacon language that would fry bacon References in periodicals archive She can sing, act and swear like a sailor Are invisible new fake tans a clear winner? I'm never recognised. I'm not orange in real life
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