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Idiom TALK (SOMEONE’S) EAR OFF
Definition to bore someone with one’s unending talk
Examples
  1. I try to keep my office door closed so that Jim won’t come in. When he does, he talks my ear off and I can’t get any work done.
  2. Doug tried to signal me to interrupt his one-way conversation with Rita. It was obvious that she was talking his ear off and he was too polite to end the conversation.

Synonym: bend (someone’s) ear

Compare to: talk a blue streak

Talk someone’s ear off conveys a sense of boredom that may or may not be present in talk a blue streak.

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