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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
blue streak
 
NOUN: Informal 1. Something moving very fast. 2. A rapid and seemingly interminable stream of words: curse a blue streak.
ETYMOLOGY:Probably in allusion to a bolt of lightning.
 
 
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