talk fast and loose

present singular third person talks fast and loose · participle present talking fast and loose · participle past talked fast and loose · past talked fast and loose

1. To speak with little regard to accuracy.

   "Folks will talk so much about things they don't understand, my dear Marit," she said; "they talk fast and loose, and, as for the fell-maker, he may understand sheep's skin well enough, but sickness and changelings he knows nothing about, I say and maintain!"

   1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 297