mile a minute



mile a minute

At a very rapid pace. Taylor was so excited to tell me about her first day at school that she was talking a mile a minute.
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*mile a minute

Fig. very fast. (*Typically: go ~; move ~; talk ~; travel ~.) She talks a mile a minute and is very hard to keep up with.
See also: mile, minute

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Dixie['diksi]
Marijeta-Croatian
Beverly['bevəli]
YakovYAH-kahf (Russian)Hebrew, Russian, Bulgarian
Ganesh-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Bengali, Nepali
BriarBRIE-ərEnglish (Rare)