| 词汇 | gift of gab |
| 词源 | gift of gab. Someone with the gift of gab is a very good talker or speaker, though sometimes a braggart, too. This common expression would best be given as “the gift of the gab,” for the word gab was originally Gaelic gob, meaning “mouth,” the ex- pression originally “the gift of the gob,” the gift of the mouth. |
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