jaw-jaw

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To talk at length

   To talk at length; to chatter or jabber.

   • The EEC and America jaw-jawed their way to the brink of an all-out war over limiting European steel exports to the United States.
   • ...in certain contexts extensive and prolonged jaw-jawing — in the form of treaty-making — can serve to inhibit the resort to war.
   • We might have five of us jaw-jawing. You don't have that any more. I hate to lose that; it was a great joy in my life.

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