talk out (the side of) one’s neck
v. phr.— «Only the sum of all these experiences would be able to make up Universe itself. of course i’m just “talking out of my neck” as we say in Dutch.» —“Synergetics—jitterbug, scale” by Gerald de Jong Usenet: bit.listserv.geodesic Dec. 3, 1994. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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