Idiom
flap one's gums
Meaning
To speak idly; to talk without effect.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“Stop flapping your gums and start working.”
“The meeting lasted an hour, but he was just flapping his gums without offering any real solutions.”
“While the politician continued to flap his gums about reform, the citizens grew increasingly frustrated by the lack of tangible progress.”
Examples
simple
“Stop flapping your gums and start working.”
contextual
“The meeting lasted an hour, but he was just flapping his gums without offering any real solutions.”
complex
“While the politician continued to flap his gums about reform, the citizens grew increasingly frustrated by the lack of tangible progress.”
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