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Idiom

mile a minute

Meaning

Very quickly.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“He talks a mile a minute when he is excited.”

“My sister was so nervous about her big presentation that she spoke a mile a minute the entire time.”

“The brilliant scientist explained her complex theory a mile a minute, leaving the rest of the room struggling to keep up with her rapid thoughts.”

Examples

simple

“He talks a mile a minute when he is excited.”

contextual

“My sister was so nervous about her big presentation that she spoke a mile a minute the entire time.”

complex

“The brilliant scientist explained her complex theory a mile a minute, leaving the rest of the room struggling to keep up with her rapid thoughts.”

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