NDA (I) 2022 General Ability Test · Question 15 of 150

Correct — A, 'talking hurriedly and rapidly.' 'Talking nineteen (or twenty) to the dozen' describes speaking very fast and without pause — rattling on at great speed — so option (a) gives its meaning.

• (b)talking too much — Close, but the idiom stresses the rapid pace of speech, not merely the quantity of it.
• (c)talking without making sense — There is no 'nonsense' element; the phrase is about speed, not incoherence.
• (d)talking out of turn — That means speaking when one should not; the idiom is about speaking very fast.

'Talking nineteen (or twenty) to the dozen' means talking very fast and continuously.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the meaning of the idiom 'to talk nineteen to the dozen'.

  • (a)to talk very fast
  • (b)to talk sense
  • (c)to whisper
  • (d)to stay silent

  Answer(a) to talk very fast — the standard form of the same idiom.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the meaning of the idiom 'to rattle on'.

  • (a)to talk rapidly and at length
  • (b)to speak formally
  • (c)to argue loudly
  • (d)to remain quiet

  Answer(a) to talk rapidly and at length — close to talking twenty to the dozen.