talk a mile a minute

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Verb

talk a mile a minute (third-person singular simple present talks a mile a minute, present participle talking a mile a minute, simple past and past participle talked a mile a minute)

1. (idiomatic) To speak quickly or excessively.

   They spent the whole visit talking a mile a minute, and then went home and phoned each other!

   • 2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     He talks a mile a minute in wildly over-egged adjectives and mainly looks after the business side of BrewDog: money, marketing, strategy.

Related terms

• a mile a minute

Translations

to talk really fast

• Portuguese: falar a mil à hora