mile a minute
At breakneck speed
Mile a minute describes something happening extremely fast.
The phrase works as an adverb—She talks a mile a minute—or as an adjective: his mile-a-minute patter.
The image is of covering a mile in sixty seconds, roughly sixty miles per hour, which felt impressively fast when the expression emerged.
Incoherent speech
- jabberTalk rapidly, incoherently
- prattleTrivial, prolonged speech
- blabberRamble without substance
- yakHimalayan ox or chatter
natter · gabfest · ramble · motormouth · chatterbox · gossip · rapid-fire · breathless
Recklessly high speed
- lightningAtmospheric electrical discharge
- rapidMoving with haste
- swiftMoving with speed
- whirlwindViolently rotating air column
racing · rushing · hurtling · zooming · tearing · blazing · express · hasty
Overstating beyond reality
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- dramaticStrikingly expressive or sudden
- hyperbolicExaggerated beyond reason
colorful · vivid · figurative · emphatic · intensifier · colloquial · idiomatic · expressive
babble
Incoherent speech
yak · natter · gabfest · ramble · motormouth · chatterbox · gossip · rapid-fire · breathless · non-stop
breakneck
Recklessly high speed
whirlwind · racing · rushing · hurtling · zooming · tearing · blazing · express · hasty · hurried
exaggeration
Overstating beyond reality
- overstatementClaim beyond the facts
- embellishmentDecorative addition or exaggeration
- dramaticStrikingly expressive or sudden
hyperbolic · colorful · vivid · figurative · emphatic · intensifier · colloquial · idiomatic · expressive · rhetorical
- Speed Expressionsin a flash, quick as a flash, in no time, lickety-split, lickety split
- measurement idiomsinch by inch, give an inch, whole nine yards, foot in the door, pound of flesh
mile a minutesnail's pace
Extremely slow movement
slow as molasses · at a snail's pace · leisurely · slow · unhurried
mile a minutedeliberate
Consciously chosen, not accidental
halting · drawn-out · measured · ponderous · monosyllabic
mile, minute, miles, minutes, mileage, miler, milers, minutely, minuteness