nineteen to the dozen

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Prov. very rapidly or energetically. Whenever I get together with my cousins, we always gossip away nineteen to the dozen. While Alan got the other ingredients, Jane was chopping up potatoes nineteen to the dozen.

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Princess Mary will take her there and show her over, and they'll talk nineteen to the dozen. War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context She stayed playing with Diana more than half an hour more'n I gave her leave to; and now she's perched out there on the woodpile talking to Matthew, nineteen to the dozen, when she knows perfectly well she ought to be at her work. Anne Of Green Gables by Montgomery, Lucy Maud View in context You may talk nineteen to the dozen -- I shall write to my friend and say Yes, in Frank's interests, by to-day's post. No Name by Collins, Wilkie View in context			Nice guys finish last Nice meeting you Nice one! Nice place you have here nice to meet you nice to see you Nice weather we're having Nice work if you can get it! nick nick up nickel nickel and dime nickel-and-dime niggle niggle about night night after night night and day night on the town night owl night person nine nine days' wonder nine times out of ten nine-to-five job nineteen to the dozen nip nip and tuck nip at nip in the air nip in the bud nip off nitty no big deal no call for no chance No comment no contest no dice no doubt no doubt about it no earthly reason no end no end in sight no end of no expense is spared No fair! No fear! no flies on no good no great shakes			Nineholes Ninel Aleksandrovna Tkachenko Ninel Tkachenko Ninella Aleksandrovna Kurgapkina Ninella Kurgapkina Ninemsn Spaces ninepence ninepenny ninepin ninepin ninepin ninepin alley ninepin ball ninepins ninepins Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuge niner Niners Nines Nines Nines Ninescore nineteen nineteen nineteen Nineteen Point Five Collective nineteen to the dozen Nineteen-eighties Nineteen-fifties Nineteen-forties Nineteen-hundreds Nineteen-nineties Nineteen-Ninety-Eight Nineteen-seventies Nineteen-sixties Nineteen-thirties Nineteen-twenties nineteens nineteens nineteenth nineteenth Nineteenth Amendment Nineteenth Amendment Nineteenth Amendment Nineteenth Amendment Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue Nineteenth Century Women's Rights Movement Nineteenth Century Women's Rights Movement Nineteenth Congress of the CPSU Nineteenth hole Nineteenth hole nineteenth holes nineteenth holes nineteenth man Nineteenth-Century French Studies Nineteenth-century Interdisciplinary Studies Students' Collective nineteenths

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