Meaning of blue streak | Babel Free
Definitions
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A great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar. informal
- A trace left by something that is too quick to see.
Examples
“to talk a blue streak”
“interspersing his vehement comments with a ‘blue streak’ of oaths”
“He calmly lied to me a blue streak, and he knew that I knew he was lying”
“This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr. Kowalski.”
“If you leave your dog alone in your backyard for hours at a time, he may be barking a blue streak, too.”
“To pass[…] with such rapidity as not even to leave a ‘blue streak’ behind him”
“An American engineer, who had been in England, described the Express train from Liverpool to London as running a "blue streak," by which he meant going like lightning.”
“Now then, watch me leave a blue streak behind!”
“Running like a blue streak from your old mammy.”
“She was wild and crazy, and she could run a blue streak.”
“He (the suspect) should know better than to run from my partner Leroy, for he's like a blue streak.”
CEFR level
B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.