"blue streak" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "From the afterimage of a stroke of lightning, which looks like a blue streak across the sky.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to talk a blue streak",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1847, The Knickerbocker, page 178",
          "text": "interspersing his vehement comments with a ‘blue streak’ of oaths",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1895 September, The Century Magazine, page 676",
          "text": "He calmly lied to me a blue streak, and he knew that I knew he was lying",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul, A Streetcar Named Desire, spoken by Blanche (Vivien Leigh)",
          "text": "This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr. Kowalski.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Sue Owens Wright, 150 Activities For Bored Dogs",
          "text": "If you leave your dog alone in your backyard for hours at a time, he may be barking a blue streak, too.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar."
      ],
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        "(informal, originally US) A great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar."
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        "informal"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1830 May 14, Kentuckian, page 2/5",
          "text": "To pass[…] with such rapidity as not even to leave a ‘blue streak’ behind him",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1867, James Howard, A Trip to America: Two Lectures, page 35",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Mark Twain, A Horse's Tale",
          "text": "Now then, watch me leave a blue streak behind!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Dick D'Easum, Sawtooth Tales, page 273",
          "text": "Running like a blue streak from your old mammy.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Mignon C. Reynolds, Life as Bonkers, page 13",
          "text": "She was wild and crazy, and she could run a blue streak.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Leroy Stover, Birmingham First Black in Blue",
          "text": "He (the suspect) should know better than to run from my partner Leroy, for he's like a blue streak.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A trace left by something that is too quick to see."
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  "word": "blue streak"
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  "etymology_text": "From the afterimage of a stroke of lightning, which looks like a blue streak across the sky.",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to talk a blue streak",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1847, The Knickerbocker, page 178",
          "text": "interspersing his vehement comments with a ‘blue streak’ of oaths",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895 September, The Century Magazine, page 676",
          "text": "He calmly lied to me a blue streak, and he knew that I knew he was lying",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul, A Streetcar Named Desire, spoken by Blanche (Vivien Leigh)",
          "text": "This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr. Kowalski.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Sue Owens Wright, 150 Activities For Bored Dogs",
          "text": "If you leave your dog alone in your backyard for hours at a time, he may be barking a blue streak, too.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, originally US) A great deal of fast talking, cursing, lying, or similar."
      ],
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        "informal"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1830 May 14, Kentuckian, page 2/5",
          "text": "To pass[…] with such rapidity as not even to leave a ‘blue streak’ behind him",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1867, James Howard, A Trip to America: Two Lectures, page 35",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1907, Mark Twain, A Horse's Tale",
          "text": "Now then, watch me leave a blue streak behind!",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1977, Dick D'Easum, Sawtooth Tales, page 273",
          "text": "Running like a blue streak from your old mammy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Mignon C. Reynolds, Life as Bonkers, page 13",
          "text": "She was wild and crazy, and she could run a blue streak.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Leroy Stover, Birmingham First Black in Blue",
          "text": "He (the suspect) should know better than to run from my partner Leroy, for he's like a blue streak.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A trace left by something that is too quick to see."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "blue streak"
}