プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
くちぐせ【口癖】
❶〔よく言う言葉〕one's favorite phrase
母は「骨惜しみするな」と口癖のように言う
「My mother always says, [My mother's pet saying is]“Take the trouble to do it right.”
❷〔話し方〕one's own peculiar manner of talking
5歳の子がおばあちゃんの口癖をまねて皆を笑わせた
The five-year-old child imitated her grandmother's way of talking and made us all laugh.