verbal diarrhea

Related to verbal diarrhea: diarrhea of the mouth

verbal diarrhea

Babbling, longwinded talk; inane and lengthy chatter. Primarily heard in US. I get so nervous when I go out on dates that I always start getting verbal diarrhea and sounding like a fool.
See also: diarrhea, verbal
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • jabber about
  • jabber about (someone or something)
  • gab
  • a slanging match
  • chitter-chatter
  • chatter away
  • a war of words
  • cut (someone or something) down to size
  • cut somebody down to size
  • cut someone down to size
References in periodicals archive
After his public bout of verbal diarrhea, the Granite Grok meister was first kicked off his radio Show, then lost his newspaper column and then sent himself on at least temporary exile from his blog:
Their nervous energy may also express itself in the form of verbal diarrhea.
How about "Verbal Diarrhea" for folks who chatter incessantly at a cocktail party or committee meeting, or "Intellectual Constipation" for our friends with exasperating narrow-mindedness.
Setting aside the narrative convulsions and deferrals, the first volume is distinguished by its absence of other Tarantino trademarks--such as left of centre characterization and characters experiencing verbal diarrhea. The famed pop cultural references are primarily referenced through genre (ex)citation and film homage.
It feels like a text that never gets to the point, and the thread somewhat drowns in the verbal diarrhea.
(5) Speaking of verbal diarrhea, Scaife-funded David Horowitz has just published another of his entertainingly insane pamphlets; this one joining fellow McCarthyite Andrew Sullivan in blaming the "Fifth Column" left for September 11.
Such piecing together is all the more onerous, as some of the interior monologues -- e.g., that of the woman emigrant's brother's repetitious eruptions of unremitting filth -- expose the reader to a verbal diarrhea that is unequaled even by the ruminations of Doblin's psychotic pimps.
But to true scientists what these people say is pure effrontery and verbal diarrhea. True scientific advancement is seldom so black and white.