如果一個人跟你喋喋不休地說教，中文中可以用“這話聽得我耳朵都長繭了”來形容。英文裏面類似的說法是talk one's ear off。例如：
例句-1：Stay away from Mr. Jones. He will talk your ear off if he gets a chance.
你得離瓊斯先生遠一些，如果讓他逮著機會，他能跟你聊到你耳朵起繭。
Talk one's ear off意思是“沒完沒了地長談”，我們再學個類似的習慣用語：talk a blue streak。兩者雖然有相近的意義，但是卻不完全一樣。A blue streak原來指閃電，閃電一閃即逝，這個習慣用語描述的是“說話奇快無比”。
例如：
例句-2：Susan is lovely, but she has one problem - she talks a blue
streak. At dinner she chattered away so fast I couldn't get in a word
edgewise. I doubt I'll ever ask her out again.
蘇珊雖然長得可愛，但是她有一個問題: 她說話快得像放連珠炮。吃飯的時候，她劈裏啪啦一個勁兒地說，快得我連半句嘴都插不上。我想我再也不會約她出來了。
再學個習慣用語：talk till you're blue in the face，按照字面來解釋是“一直說到臉色發青”。它也表示沒完沒了地說話，但是同時還表示“說得口乾舌燥、筋疲力盡”。
例如：
例句-3：I talked to my son until I was blue in the face about how he
needed to make good grades in high school to get into college. But his
grades show that he wasn't really listening.
我跟兒子說想進大學就得在高中拿好成績，我說得口乾舌燥、筋疲力盡。但是兒子的分數說明他沒真的聽進去。
