talk a mile a minute

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talk a mile a minute (third-person singular simple present talks a mile a minute, present participle talking a mile a minute, simple past and past participle talked a mile a minute)

  1. (idiomatic) To speak quickly or excessively.
    They spent the whole visit talking a mile a minute, and then went home and phoned each other!
    • 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:
      He talks a mile a minute in wildly over-egged adjectives and mainly looks after the business side of BrewDog: money, marketing, strategy.
  • a mile a minute
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