talk a mile a minute
To speak quickly or excessively.
They spent the whole visit talking a mile a minute, and then went home and phoned each other!
ADJ
nautical
VERB + MILE
cover, cycle, do, drive, go, ride, run, travel, trudge, walk
She walks five miles every morning before breakfast to stay healthy.
clock (up)
The delivery driver clocked up nearly 500 miles during last week's busy schedule.
PHRASES
miles an/per hour
The old car couldn't go faster than 40 miles per hour even downhill.
noun
The international mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 1.609344 kilometers established by treaty among Anglophone nations in 1959, divided into 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards.
Turn left in 1.2 miles.
You need to go about three mile down the road.
Any of several customary units of length derived from the 1593 English statute mile of 8 furlongs, equivalent to 5,280 feet or 1,760 yards of various precise values.
Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.
Any of many customary units of length derived from the Roman mile (mille passus) of 8 stades or 5,000 Roman feet.
The Scandinavian mile: a unit of length precisely equal to 10 kilometers defined in 1889.
Any of many customary units of length from other measurement systems of roughly similar values, as the Chinese mile or Arabic mile.
name
A transliteration of the Macedonian male given name Миле (Mile)
name
A county-level city of Honghe prefecture, Yunnan, China.
To speak quickly or excessively.
They spent the whole visit talking a mile a minute, and then went home and phoned each other!
To make an extra effort; to do a particularly good job.
President Reagan pledged at a news conference today “to go the extra mile” to compromise with Democrats.
A long way, a great distance.
by a country mile
A failure remains a failure, regardless of how close to success one has actually come.
To escape, flee, or leave a situation or relationship, usually as a result of a shocking or sudden announcement or revelation.
If I told him that I had kids, he'd run a mile.
Turn left in 1.2 miles.
WiktionaryYou need to go about three mile down the road.
Wiktionary3.6 km is about 2 miles.
WiktionaryThe bridge is one mile above.
Tatoeba · #18984The school stands about one mile off.
Tatoeba · #21541I saw a fishing boat about a mile off the shore.
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