talk someone's ear off

verb

To talk to someone excessively, or far more than is wanted or appreciated.

“If he can get you on the phone, he'll talk your ear off, every time.”

Similar
talk someone's head offtalk someone's arm offtalk someone's leg offtalk the ears off someonetalk someone under the tabletalk the ears off a donkeytalk the hind leg off a donkeytalk the legs off a pot
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Meanings

verbtalk someone's ear off (third-person singular simple present talks someone's ear off, present participle talking someone's ear off, simple past and past participle talked someone's ear off)

present singular third person talks someone's ear off · participle present talking someone's ear off · participle past talked someone's ear off · past talked someone's ear off

  1. idiomaticslangTo talk to someone excessively, or far more than is wanted or appreciated.

    If he can get you on the phone, he'll talk your ear off, every time.

    1 more example

    Near-synonyms: talk the ears off a donkey, talk the hind leg off a donkey, talk the legs off a pot, talk the leg off the Lamb of God

    Synonyms: talk someone's head off, talk someone's arm off, talk someone's leg off, talk the ears off someone, talk someone under the table, talk the ears off a donkey, talk the hind leg off a donkey, talk the legs off a pot

Synonyms & antonyms

verbTo talk to someone excessively, or far more than is wanted or appreciated.

Similar
talk someone's head offtalk someone's arm offtalk someone's leg offtalk the ears off someonetalk someone under the tabletalk the ears off a donkeytalk the hind leg off a donkeytalk the legs off a pottalk the leg off the Lamb of God
Also see
talk someone's arm offtalk someone's head offtalk someone's leg offtalk the ears off someonetalk the leg off the lamb of god

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 對某人喋喋不休 /对某人喋喋不休
  • 對某人喋喋不休 /对某人喋喋不休 (duì mǒurén diédiébùxiū)talk to someone excessively
Finnish puhua loputtomasti
  • puhua loputtomastitalk to someone excessively
French rebattre les oreilles
  • rebattre les oreillestalk to someone excessively
German jemandem ein Kotelett ans Ohr labern, jemanden volllabern
  • jemandem ein Kotelett ans Ohr laberntalk to someone excessively
  • jemanden volllaberntalk to someone excessively
Norwegian Bokmål snakke hull i hodet på noen
  • snakke hull i hodet på noentalk to someone excessively
Polish mleć ozorem, gadać jak najęty
  • mleć ozoremtalk to someone excessively
  • gadać jak najętytalk to someone excessively
Russian прожужжать уши
  • прожужжать уши (prožužžatʹ uši)talk to someone excessively
Spanish enrollarse como las persianas, hablar por los codos
  • enrollarse como las persianastalk to someone excessively
  • hablar por los codostalk to someone excessively
  • no callarse ni debajo del aguatalk to someone excessively
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Chicago

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