jawbone

But the bureaucrats have a lot of jawboning to do.
Mais les bureaucrates ont beaucoup de blabla à faire.
It is evident that two normal persons simply jawboning, not reading a newscast, would not use the more formal verb mow.
Il est évident que deux personnes normales qui sont simplement en train de jaser, qui ne lisent pas un programme de nouvelles, n’utiliseraient pas le verbe faucher beaucoup plus formel.
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