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«niner domestic
nineteen to the dozen
nineteen-longtime»
nineteen to the dozen -
To do something at a great rate.
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© Michael Quinion --
22 May 2004 Newsletter :
Inflation is everywhere, it seems, even in language. The usual form is "nineteen to the dozen"; on occasion I've come across "twenty to
the doze," but never forty. It's now perhaps a little old-fashioned as a British expression, though you can still find examples in
newspapers and daily speech. The usual meaning, as you will have gathered, is to do something at a great rate. It most often refers to speed
of speaking, as in this instance from the Daily Mail of 23 October 2003: "Talking nineteen to the dozen, her conversation is
still peppered with outrageous references and bawdy asides." The idea is that the rate of talking is so great that when other people say
merely a dozen words, the speaker gets in 19. It's also sometimes used to describe rapid heartbeat in times of danger, and to refer to
other fast-moving or fast-changing things (like dogs' tails). Nobody seems to have the slightest idea why 19 is the traditional number to
use here, but it has been in that form ever since it was first recorded in the eighteenth century.
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