Blue streak

"Blue streak" in a Sentence (11 examples)

to talk a blue streak

interspersing his vehement comments with a ‘blue streak’ of oaths

He calmly lied to me a blue streak, and he knew that I knew he was lying

This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr. Kowalski.

If you leave your dog alone in your backyard for hours at a time, he may be barking a blue streak, too.

To pass[…] with such rapidity as not even to leave a ‘blue streak’ behind him

An American engineer, who had been in England, described the Express train from Liverpool to London as running a "blue streak," by which he meant going like lightning.

Now then, watch me leave a blue streak behind!

Running like a blue streak from your old mammy.

She was wild and crazy, and she could run a blue streak.

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He (the suspect) should know better than to run from my partner Leroy, for he's like a blue streak.

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