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nineteen to the dozen |
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nineteen to the dozen 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. See also: dozen nineteen/ten to the dozen (British & Australian informal) if someone is talking nineteen to the dozen, they are talking very fast, without stopping Gaby was chatting away nineteen to the dozen behind me and I couldn't concentrate. See also: dozen How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Princess Mary will take her there and show her over, and they'll talk nineteen to the dozen. 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. 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. |
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