twenty to the dozen

adv

Etymology

As if saying twenty words to another's dozen.

Definitions

  1. very fast, fluently

    • He can talk French twenty to the dozen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for twenty to the dozen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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