can talk the hind leg off a donkey

can talk the hind leg off a donkey
can talk the hind leg(s) off a donkey British, humorous if you say that someone can talk the hind leg off a donkey, you mean that they talk a lot.

His father could talk the hind leg off a donkey.


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