LI3- FIXED EXPRESSIONS SPEAK DOMAIN

To give the silent treatment

completely ignoring a person or a thing by resorting to silence as a mean of expressing contempt or disapproval

to talk down to someone

to talk to someone in an overly simply way suggesting that they are not intelligent

to talk about somebody behind their back

concealing without someone's knowledge

to be a chatter box

a person who talks continually who engages in much idle or unimportant talk

to explain something in layman's terms

using simple language that anyone can understand

to harp on

to talk about the subject constantly and repeatedly in a way that is annoying

to be at a loss for words

to be unable to think of anything to say

to be long winded

to be tediously long in speaking or writing

to set tongues wagging

to say that people are talking a lot about something. guessing about someone's private life

to have a smattering of a language

superficial knowledge of something, to have a vague idea

to steer clear of a subject

to avoid to talk about something and not even mention it

to gloss over

to avoid or to cover unpleasant unfavorable treating it briefly or misleadingly

To say something under one's breath

quietly so that other people cannot hear

to talk the hind leg off a donkey / to talk a blue streak

talk quickly a lot about boring or not important things without stopping

can't / couldn't get a word in edgeways

to not be able to say something because someone else is talking all the time