blue streak
Example Sentences
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To her TV, film, podcast and stand-up fans, she’s a moral center with a blue streak.
From New York Times • May 27, 2024
The toddler can talk a blue streak and likes an audience.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023
That means swearing a blue streak, the way he does, or trying to out-do someone or impress them.
From BBC • Mar. 9, 2022
We know and love her as Old Christine; forgive us for being shocked to see her with a sexy blue streak in her hair.
From Slate • Apr. 16, 2021
I had no idea how old it was, I never did, with babies—for all I knew it could talk a blue streak and had twenty teeth behind its pursed, pink lips.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
