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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.
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And from the reaction of the local Breton farmers gesticulating ten to the dozen, our Gallic brethren were pretty made up about it too.
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