talk a blue streak

present singular third person talks a blue streak · participle present talking a blue streak · participle past talked a blue streak · past talked a blue streak

1. idiomaticinformalTo talk for a long duration of time, at a rapid pace without giving others a chance to speak, or to the point of tedium.

   She's normally a quiet person, but she will talk a blue streak about fashion, if you let her.

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   talking a blue streak two miles to her house

   1895, Susan Hale, Letters, published 1919, page 289

   Some days, I'd sit with Jason reading the Times in the living room and I'd talk a blue streak, presenting him with all my theories about, say, the deterioration of the American family in the late twentieth century and how it all relates to the decline of an agrarian society.

   1994, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America, Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, pages 4–5

   Don't know. Even if I wanted to know, couldn't get a word in with Lashawn long enough to ask. Woman talks a blue streak.

   2005, Larry McMurtry, Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain, spoken by Randall Malone (David Harbour)