Meaning of talk a blue streak | Babel Free

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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