talking shop
noun[S]
UKdisapprovingukusanorganizationor aplacewherediscussionis themainactivity, but nodecisionsoractionsare taken:
Theforumcould end up as just anothertalkingshop, with nofirmprogrammeorfinancialbackingbeingagreed.
Examplesoftalking shop
talking shop
They spent a lot of time together,talkingshopand drinking.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It aimed to provide atalkingshopfor representatives of all aspects of the publishing world to discuss issues at the forefront of copyright protection and enforcement globally today.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.If it is not, the agency will just be yet another worthless and costlytalkingshop.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
This group will not be atalkingshop.
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Perhaps the committee will be merely an emptytalkingshopand we are setting up an empty consultative body.
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There should be a legislative move rather than simply the massive, protractedtalkingshopthat is getting us nowhere.
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Why do we have to turn discussion of these residuary matters into a great bigtalkingshop?
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The council will become not only atalkingshopbut a discontentedtalkingshop.
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It must not be atalkingshopor an excuse for delaying action.
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