life story

Definitions

1. An account of an individual's life.
2. A long and detailed monologue delivered to someone.
   broadly, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“Queen Mary of the Iron⟳ Road. By Fred C. Bishop. […] This is the life-story of a boy who was determined to become⟳ an engine driver, and who lost no time in realising his ambition. A bold plunge from a clerkship in a coal merchant's office carried Fred Bishop, at the age of 14, into the locomotive department of the London & North Western Railway.”

“I wish⟳ this guy would stop⟳ giving me his life story and just buy⟳ me a drink⟳.”

CEFR level