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shoot one's mouth off
vs
stand shilly-shally
shoot one's mouth off
verb
To make reckless or exaggerated statements.
stand shilly-shally
verb
To hesitate, vacillate or procrastinate.
How often have the words
shoot one's mouth off
and
stand shilly-shally
occurred in a corpus of books?
(source:
Google Ngram Viewer
)