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| waste one's breath (Inchionette); shake the air (Technical); allege (Fenelona); waste breath | |||
| bluster; be all bark and no bite (конт.) | |||
| rend the air (о криках и т. п. Bobrovska); beat one's gums (to waste time talking a great deal without results: I'm tired of beating my gums about this over and over. You're just beating your gums. VLZ_58); talk a big game (to say things that make people believe that one can do something or that something is true about oneself even though it is not true. They talk a good game, but they're not really ready for the championship. VLZ_58); berate the air (Abysslooker) | |||
| shoot the breeze (fa158) | |||
| blow hot air (Agasphere); speak for the sake of it (4uzhoj) | |||
| rend the air; waste one's breath | |||
| yackety-yak; yakitty-yak; fan; talk out the side of your neck (urbandictionary.com vantus) | |||
| сотрясать воздух: 8 phrases in 3 subjects |
| General | 2 |
| Idiomatic | 5 |
| Makarov | 1 |