prattle about

prattle about (someone or something)

To ramble, chatter, or babble about someone or something in an idle, meaningless, or incessant way. What on earth is he prattling about now? Jeff's been prattling about some girl he met at camp over the summer. The date was pretty boring. She just prattled about her dog for most of it.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

prattle (away) about someone or something

to chatter idly and endlessly about someone or something. The little girl prattled away for an hour about her school, her friends, and her toys. I wish you would stop prattling about your friends.
See also: prattle
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • prattle
  • prattle about (someone or something)
  • prattle on (about someone or something)
  • prattle away (about someone or something)
  • flap (one's) jaws
  • gasbag
  • chitchat
  • old windbag
  • windbag
  • a saving grace
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There's an eerie continuity that runs from Moynihan's absurd prattle about the need to inculcate discipline among the poor, to Wilson's focus on social pathology, to Klein's ugly rant against poor people's supposed lack of "restraint." Liberals and conservatives pack different adjectives around their briefs against poor people's alleged behavior, but always it is the poor themselves who are to blame for their plight.
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Reagan, his Republicans and the sizable caucus of "defense Democrats" who have joined this latest intervention prattle about restoring democracy, protecting religion and saving the hemisphere from communism.
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