School pupils in China are kids, after all, not robots – they goof around, joke, talk over each other. |
Favoring multilateralism over unilateralism often means favoring talk over action. |
I learned how to talk over the loud noise in the garage at a fish fry. |
He wanted to talk over the layout and sequencing of portraits in the notebook he'd been carrying. |
Everybody then adjourned to the 19th hole to talk over the competition, and all agreed it was a fine idea and it would improve their short game. |
There was bluster, bluff, and blarney, with everybody trying to talk over everybody else. |