talk a blue streak en · VERB
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(idiomatic, informal) 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.
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.
2005, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain, spoken by Randall Malone (David Harbour):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.
1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, pages 4–5: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
1895, Susan Hale, Letters, published 1919, page 289:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| talked a blue streak | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| talked a blue streak | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| talks a blue streak | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| talking a blue streak | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Relateds
blue streak · talk nineteen to the dozen
Translations (8)
de ohne Punkt und Komma (to talk for a long time, rapidly without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium) · fi jaaritella (to talk for a long time, rapidly without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium) · ru говори́ть без умо́лку (to talk for a long time, rapidly without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium) · pl gadać jak najęta (to talk for a long time, rapidly without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium) · pl gadać jak najęty (to talk for a long time, rapidly without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium) · es hablar por los codos (to talk for a long time, rapidly without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium) · ru говори́ть без остано́вки (to talk for a long time, rapidly without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium) · ru треща́ть (to talk for a long time, rapidly without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium)