ramble on (about someone or something)

ramble on (about someone or something)
ramble on (about someone or something)
Fig. [for someone] to talk endlessly and aimlessly about someone or something. (Based on ramble on.) •

I wish you wouldn't ramble on about your first husband all the time.

Must you ramble on so?


Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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