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пустая болтовня stresses
gen.	twaddle; palaver; waffle; idle talk; hog-wash; lip-labour; maundering; talkie-talkie; twiddle-twaddle; vapouring; jive; moonshine; poppycock; gossipy conversation; mere declamation; blatherskite (Anglophile); pointless blathering (triumfov); lip labour; lip work; make talk; maunder; prittle prattle; twiddle twaddle; small talk; lip-work; windbaggery (Taras); empty words (Taras); bullshitting (Rassda); waste of air (Anne Grinko); drivel; drool; talky talk; talkie talkie; milling the wind (Ремедиос_П); cheap talk (Ivan Pisarev); chaff
adv.	loose talk
amer.	gobbledygook (The report is just a bunch of gobbledygook. Val_Ships); yada (Taras)
amer., slang	kafooster
cockney	cobblers
dipl.	hogwash
disappr.	hot air (a lot of hot air on the part of the premier ART Vancouver)
idiom.	more heat than light (The meeting that was held to discuss the problem generated more heat than light. Встреча, которая состоялась для обсуждения проблемы, вылилась в пустую болтовню. Interex); slate and prate (Obscure expression. It means, apparently, "idle talk" (Plutarch's Moralia V. 386B) markvidov); song birds (Alex_Odeychuk)
inf.	rigmarole; guff; hot air; make-talk; slipslop; gaff; patter; idle gossip (they were trading idle gossip Val_Ships); blabla (Лилия Кузьмина)
Makarov.	idle chatter; innocent tattling
media.	empty talk (fayzee)
slang	guff goff; jazz; scuttle-butt; yackety-yak; yakitty-yak; yapping inanity (vatnik)
vulg.	piss and wind
Игорь Миг, inf.	crapola

пустая болтовня: 21 phrases in 6 subjects

Business	1
Figurative	1
General	8
Informal	1
Makarov	7
Slang	3