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Yogi2005 Posted 21 years ago
Vocabulary

Looking for an idiom

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00I'm looking for an idiom that would mean 02br
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00to talk much and to say very little 02br
00to talk about something for 15 minutes what can be said in 1 minute 02br
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00for example, while at school , You haven't studied at all but you can talk for hours and you make an impression that you know everything 02br
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00you have to write an essay, you know nothing about the topic but you can write and write for several pages. 02br
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00Politicians are very good at this, they use several sentences what can be summarized in one sentence. 02br
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00I'm not sure if I explalained clearly what I mean, I hope so. 02br
00I would be grateful if anyone could help me. 02br
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00thank you 0-
  

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0 Hi, 02br 00'To go all around the houses' means to talk a lot, but also with the sense that you are avoiding having to give a simple and direct answer. 02br 02br 00When she asked him if he loved her, he went all around the houses. 02br 02br 00This was a BrE idiom many years ago.

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0 Hi, 02br
00'To go all around the houses' means to talk a lot, but also with the sense that you are avoiding having to give a simple and direct answer. 02br
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00When she asked him if he loved her, he went all around the houses. 02br
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00This was a BrE idiom many years ago. I don't live there now, so I don't know if it's still used. 02
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0 Yes, it's still used Clive, but maybe not so often as formerly 0-
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