talk ten to the dozen BrE informal
talk nineteen to the dozen BrE informal
talk a blue streak AmE informal , auch: talk ninety to the dozen informal

Off they all went, talking nineteen to the dozen, making George's poor father feel quite bewildered.

Up the stairs they went in excitement, talking nineteen to the dozen.

Both of them were talking nineteen to the dozen.

Everyone was in a great state of excitement at once, and began to talk nineteen to the dozen, the words almost falling over themselves.

They all sat down on a convenient rock and talked nineteen to the dozen, telling each other what had happened.

He talks nineteen to the dozen.

Rosie was pleased to see her; she sat on her lap, having her miniature cardigan removed and talking nineteen to the dozen.

He is walking me around the upstairs gallery, talking nineteen to the dozen about death and decay and blood and paint and pills, all the usual stuff.

He was still talking nineteen to the dozen to Fazzini, but there was a humorous set to his hard face, and Ribotto was laughing quietly.

He had Cecil (at least Mrs. Oliver supposed it was Cecil) pinned against the wall and was talking nineteen to the dozen.

She had decided to wear the green again and the new coat and beret, they went down to breakfast in good time with Eleanor still talking nineteen to the dozen.

The Doctor and Bernice were stumbling between the mushrooms of twisted metal, with the Doctor talking nineteen to the dozen and gesturing wildly with his still furled umbrella.

The conductor got out first and began to busy himself with the stores on the roof; the bus was soon surrounded by a little crowd of the local shopkeepers, all talking nineteen to the dozen.

He started several topics of conversation, but he could get little out of her, and he remembered with irritation that he had seen her talking nineteen to the dozen and laughing with the German.

"If Peeks's mother is there I expect she'll talk nineteen to the dozen, and we may find out what we want to know - which is - where was Horace Peeks on the evening of the lire?

She was one who was very devoted to your Aunt - not that Miss Fanshawe always had time for her - always talking nineteen to the dozen, as she did -' 'Mrs Lancaster has left, I hear.'

Indeed, one of the researchers' most important tasks is to ascertain for my benefit what kind of conversation we'll be likely to have - whether the guest talks nineteen to the dozen, in which case I'll need to prepare lots of questions, or if they take ten minutes to say 'Good evening'- in which case I'll start praying.

Even if he was talking a blue streak, not a chance.

All through the walk away from the house David talked a blue streak.

From the instant I got it in she started talking a blue streak.

Why, they had talked a blue streak, covering nearly every subject under the sun, too.

"I can talk a blue streak when the spirit moves me," he said.

She could talk a blue streak to anyone, that girl could.

He would talk a blue streak about the most amazing stuff, always jumping from this to that.

She becomes the film's most attention-getting figure - and the one least likely to talk a blue streak.

He had a wicked tongue when roused and could talk a blue streak.

The next thing I knew I was in here, talking a blue streak.

And something impelled her to start talking a blue streak, about anything and everything.

Now Peach still talked a blue streak and Ben was dead.

Whether looking inward or outward, their characters talk a blue streak, but words ultimately fail them.

When he wasn't in the common room talking a blue streak, he paced.

They all have it in them to talk a blue streak, or rather - since most of them are writers - a purple one.

As usual the twins talked a blue streak during the drive, asking questions about practically everything in sight.

"She can talk a blue streak around you," Ms. Harrison said of the senator.

He might talk a blue streak about loyalty, but talk was all it was.

And the child, talking a blue streak.

"We call the species tytlal, and where I come from, they talk a blue streak.

I knew he was talking a blue streak just so I wouldn't have time to brood on the past and be sad.

She was talking a blue streak.

I looked over and the driver was holding a large green parrot on a black stick, the parrot obviously talking a blue streak.

Truesdale leads him away, talking a blue streak.

Maybe if you had ... She couldn't just suddenly talk a blue streak at dinner; that would have been too out of character.