blue streak
Example Sentences
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No wonder I talked a blue streak about money with Elvira — about the hourly billing rate I charged, the new clients I landed, the prospects I was pitching and my projected annual revenues.
From Salon • Mar. 11, 2025
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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
