gift of the gab

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Hatton bears an uncanny resemblance to his dad, while he also seems to share the same gift of the gab.

From BBC • Sep. 26, 2021

Getting into residential compounds sometimes required the gift of the gab or special passes.

From Reuters • Jan. 23, 2021

Statham’s silent, intimidating stare has become so familiar that it is easy to forget he made his debut as a motormouth wheeler-dealer, hand-picked by writer/director Guy Ritchie because of his gift of the gab.

From The Guardian • Jul. 25, 2019

They — well, we — are said to have the gift of the gab.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2016

He had "the gift of the gab," and a species of forcible eloquence that some of our lawyers might envy.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin