• Russian: пустая болтовня

• Russian: долгие переговоры

Verb

1. to discuss with much talk

Quotations

• 1860: “That,” he rejoined, “is a way we Americans have. We cannot stop to palaver. What would become of our manifest destiny?” — Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 30, April, 1860

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