Rabbit on

Learning English Conversations

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Language Learning, Education

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Learn a phrase about talking too much.

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0:00.0	This is a download from BBC Learning English.
0:03.0	To find out more, visit our website.
0:06.0	Welcome to the English we speak.
0:08.0	With me, Rob, but no Faye, where is she?
0:12.0	Oh, sorry, I'm late.
0:15.0	Where have you been?
0:16.0	Well I was on the way to the studio and I bumped into Richard.
0:21.0	And you know Richard, he started rabbiting on.
0:24.4	Richard's got a rabbit?
0:26.2	No, no. I mean he wouldn't stop talking.
0:28.8	To rabbit on describe someone talking continuously so that other people lose interest in what they are saying and become bored.
0:38.0	And Richard was really going on and on and on.
0:42.0	So it's got nothing to do with Rabbit. going on and on and on.
0:42.6	So it's got nothing to do with rabbits.
0:45.4	No, Rob.
0:46.4	Let's hear some examples, shall we?
0:48.4	Mark just won't stop rabbiting on about the weather. He's so boring.
0:57.0	Freya likes to rabbit on about how amazing her boyfriend is.
1:04.0	Our meeting always overruns because our boss likes to rabbit on about timekeeping.
1:10.0	In this the English we speak we're looking at the phrase to rabbit on which describes
1:19.4	someone talking so much that they become boring to listen to.
1:23.3	So what was Richard rabbiting on about anyway?
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