talk a blue streak

Example Sentences

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The toddler can talk a blue streak and likes an audience.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 1, 2023

Dottie was 4 now and could talk a blue streak.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2021

“My customers come here and talk a blue streak, but they leave with beautiful hair,” a local hairdresser says to Selma.

From New York Times • Aug. 27, 2021

Mr. Linklater’s characters can talk a blue streak, but rarely in his work, and never in “Boyhood,” do you hear the hum of his narrative design under their words.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2014

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