Meaning

1 senses

  1. (UK, idiomatic, informal)To talk a lot.

    Near-synonyms: talk someone's head off, talk someone's arm off, talk someone's leg off, talk the ears off someone, talk someone under the table

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Tom could talk the hind leg off a donkey.

    deTom redet wie ein Wasserfall. — Adelpa

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Forms

talks the hind leg off a donkey, talking the hind leg off a donkey, talked the hind leg off a donkey, talked the hind leg off a donkey
Base formtalk the hind leg off a donkey · to talk the hind leg off a donkey
3rd person singulartalks the hind leg off a donkey
Present participletalking the hind leg off a donkey
Past simpletalked the hind leg off a donkey
Past participletalked the hind leg off a donkey

irregular

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theytalk the hind leg off a donkey
he, she, ittalks the hind leg off a donkey

Past simpleLesson

all personstalked the hind leg off a donkey

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave talked the hind leg off a donkey
he, she, ithas talked the hind leg off a donkey

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill talk the hind leg off a donkey

Synonyms

8 synonyms
talk the ears off a donkeytalk the legs off a pottalk the leg off the Lamb of Godtalk someone's head offtalk someone's arm offtalk someone's leg offtalk the ears off someonetalk someone under the table

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
talismantalkA1talkativeB1talkertalkietallA1
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