TO RUN ON PATTENS, verb. phr. (common).—To clatter; ‘to talk nineteen to the dozen.’
1575. STILL, Gammer Gurton’s Needle, ii. 4. The tongue it WENT ON PATINS, by him that Judas sold!
[?]. The Taming of a Shrew [CHILD, Ballads, VIII. 185.]
| But stil hir tongue ON PATTENS RAN, | |
| Though many blowes she caught. |
