gift of the gab

Getting into residential compounds sometimes required the gift of the gab or special passes.

From Reuters ● Jan. 23, 2021

Would Socrates have developed the gift of the gab if he wasn’t so ugly?

From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2020

They — well, we — are said to have the gift of the gab.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2016

Ronnie, his flamboyant con-man father, is everywhere, seemingly a lovable rogue with the gift of the gab who lived beyond his means with a variety of lady friends, executing one elaborate scam after another.

From Economist ● Oct. 29, 2015

He had "the gift of the gab," and a species of forcible eloquence that some of our lawyers might envy.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Benjamin Waterhouse