くちにはいる
Meanings
Expression
Verb (5-dan, る)
1. to ingest; to eat; to enter the mouth
Spitting out the water that had entered my mouth, I looked up at the sky.
2. to be able to eat
In the old days, people rarely got to eat sugar.
Composed of
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
to enter; to come in; to join (a club, company, etc.); to enter (a university, the army, etc.); to be contained (in); to be included (in); to (be able to) fit (in a container, building, etc.)
Examples (5 in total)
The wind blew sand into my mouth.
In the old days, people rarely got to eat sugar.
We rarely get to eat meat this expensive.