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talk fast and loose en · VERB

Meanings

  1. To speak with little regard to accuracy.
    • "Folks will talk so much about things they don't understand, my dear Marit," she said; "they talk fast and loose, and, as for the fell-maker, he may understand sheep's skin well enough, but sickness and changelings he knows nothing about, I say and maintain!" 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297:

Forms

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talks fast and loose Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
talked fast and loose Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
talked fast and loose Tense=Past lexicographic
talking fast and loose Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic