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gen.	mill the wind; plough the sand; plough the sands; chew the fat (Anglophile); waste words (Anglophile); tread water (Beloshapkina); catch the wind in a net; fill speech with vacuities; waste time in idle chatter; engage in idle chatter; waste one's time (Anglophile); beat the wind (Anglophile)
Игорь Миг	shoot the shit; beat a dead horse
amer.	yack (Taras); yack away (Taras); palaver (to talk profusely or idly Val_Ships)
fig.	carry coals to Newcastle
idiom.	beat the air; kick a dead horse (Баян); flog a dead horse (Баян); say a lot about nothing at all (Alex_Odeychuk); chase one's own tail (VLZ_58); milk a bull (VLZ_58); catch a wind in a net (Taras)
polit.	engage in futile exercise (bigmaxus)
proverb	babble (yulayula); baste flints with butter; fish in the air; pour water into a sieve
proverb, disappr.	do quite useless; engage in idle talk
slang	gibble and gabble (joyand); beat about the bush (Yeldar Azanbayev)

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