blue streak
noun
1
: something that moves very fast
2
: a constant stream of words
talked a blue streak
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Women everywhere have many reasons to curse a blue streak.
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Gone are the days when a manager like Billy Martin or Earl Weaver would burst out of the dugout and kick up a cloud of dirt, curse a blue streak and maybe even walk away with a base or chuck one into the outfield over a missed call.
—Dan Gelston, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
Above, the top picture (from a later experiment) shows an example of the antiproton (the pale blue streak) annihilating a proton and creating positive and negative particles known as pions (respectively, the red and green lines).
—Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2010
Instead of appearing on a balcony, the royals watched from outside the entrance on the ground as the planes soared overhead and created red, white and blue streaks.
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
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Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2024
Gone are the days when a manager like Billy Martin or Earl Weaver would burst out of the dugout and kick up a cloud of dirt, curse a blue streak and maybe even walk away with a base or chuck one into the outfield over a missed call.
—Dan Gelston, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
Above, the top picture (from a later experiment) shows an example of the antiproton (the pale blue streak) annihilating a proton and creating positive and negative particles known as pions (respectively, the red and green lines).
—Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2010
Instead of appearing on a balcony, the royals watched from outside the entrance on the ground as the planes soared overhead and created red, white and blue streaks.
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 5 July 2023
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“Blue streak.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blue%20streak. Accessed 19 Nov. 2024.
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