talk a blue streak

Definitions

To talk for a long duration of time, at a rapid pace without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium.

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Examples

“She's normally a quiet person, but she will talk⟳ a blue streak about fashion, if you let⟳ her.”

“talking a blue streak two miles to her house”

“Some days, I'd sit⟳ with Jason reading the Times in the living room and I'd talk⟳ a blue streak, presenting him with all my theories about, say⟳, the deterioration of the American family in the late twentieth century and how it all relates to the decline⟳ of an agrarian society.”

“Don't know⟳. Even if I wanted to know⟳, couldn't get⟳ a word in with Lashawn long enough to ask⟳. Woman talks a blue streak.”

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