mouth down?
I met these sentences in a book.

"Just a minute while I look at the calendar."
The routine again, hand over mouthpiece, mouth down, sotto voce explanation.

I don't know what 'mouth down' means.
If anyone knows what it means, please help.
Thank you in advance.

Question

mouth down?
I met these sentences in a book.

"Just a minute while I look at the calendar."
The routine again, hand over mouthpiece, mouth down, sotto voce explanation.

I don't know what 'mouth down' means.
If anyone knows what it means, please help.
Thank you in advance.

Answer

Sotto voce means that the "explanation" is being said under the person's breath - quietly. So "mouth down" literally means that the person holding the phone drops their mouth so that the explanation is quiet and not heard by the person on the other end of the line.

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