on everyone's/everybody's lips

phrase

informal

: being said or discussed by many people

The celebrity murder trial was on everyone's lips.

Examples of on everyone's/everybody's lips in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, names like Sally Jessy Raphael, Jerry Springer, and Ricki Lake were on everybody's lips. — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026

Snow is the word on everyone's lips this week as weather forecasters show predictions for several inches of snow in the Mid-South. — Jordan Green, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 20 Jan. 2026

Taking out a free agent rather than a member of a tight three whose name has been on everybody's lips ever since the merge is pretty suspect from a strategic perspective. — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025

Click or tap here to learn more about the massive levy on everyone's lips in Butler County. — Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 29 Oct. 2025

Naturally, the question of what would have happened if Ohtani hadn't left the mound was on everyone's lips. — Julio Cesar Valdera Morales, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025

These are players whose names wouldn't be on everybody's lips, even three camps ago. — Michael Lewis, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025