We could eliminate our useless mouths and talk by radio.
"And, yes, baby girls born to a tribe living on the edge of starvation were put to death as another useless mouth to feed too."
Only my sweet brother would crowd all these useless mouths into a castle that might soon be under siege.
He'd be nothing but a drain, and her kids were already having a hard enough time without adding another useless mouth.
First, As things now stand, how they will be able to find food and raiment for a hundred thousand useless mouths and backs.
"He'd have been just another useless mouth to feed."
He is a useless and a lying mouth, why should I feed him?
Cuthred, check defenses and provisioning, send away all useless mouths.
Noncombatant personnel and other "useless mouths" began to be ferried across the narrow sea to England at once.