blue streak

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Joss was talking a blue streak to the receptionist, who was listening amiably.

My foreman was a rough talking boss, he would talk a blue streak of cuss words.

There is a bright blue streak across the tops of the trees at times.

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"Navajo infants get so attached to cradleboard that they cry to be tied into it. Kikuyu infants in Kenya get handed around several "mothers," all wives to one man. . . . Mothers in rural Guatemala keep their infants quiet, in dark huts. Middle-class American mothers talk a blue streak at them. Israeli kibbutz mothers give them over to a communal caretaker . . . Japanese mothers sleep with them. . . . All these tactics are compatible with normal health—physical and mental—and development in infancy. So one lesson for parents so far seems to be: Let a hundred flowers bloom."

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