Idiom
talk a mile a minute
Meaning
To speak quickly or excessively.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“She talks a mile a minute when she's excited.”
“The tour guide talked a mile a minute, so we struggled to catch every detail.”
“Nervous before the interview, the young candidate talked a mile a minute, filling every silence with words until the panel gently interrupted.”
Examples
simple
“She talks a mile a minute when she's excited.”
contextual
“The tour guide talked a mile a minute, so we struggled to catch every detail.”
complex
“Nervous before the interview, the young candidate talked a mile a minute, filling every silence with words until the panel gently interrupted.”
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