talk a blue streak

talk a blue streak
talk a blue streak
Fig. to talk very much and very rapidly. •

Billy didn't talk until he was two, and then he started talking a blue streak.

I can't understand anything Bob says. He talks a blue streak, and I can't follow his thinking.

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{v. phr.}, {informal} To talk on and on, usually very fast. * /Sue is a nice girl but after one drink she talks a blue streak and won't stop./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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