Explain
Explain verb - To make plain or understandable.
Rattle
Rattle verb - To make a series of short sharp noises.
Common collocations
| bit | explain bit | rattle bit |
Both words in one sentence
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Billy (the Blue Ranger and resident Genius who built a Flying Car simply because he could) would rattle off big sounding words leaving the rest of the team to wait for him to finish speaking so they could turn Trini, the Yellow Ranger, who used nice bite sized words to explain everything.
Source: Techno Babble - Try to get one to empathize with you, and they'll probably just rattle off Techno Babble, tell you why you're wrong, and explain their theories on the pointlessness of human emotion, all in a hollow, monotone voice.
Source: Personality Chip
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