gab vs go around the houses

gab

verb
  • To talk or chatter a lot, usually on trivial subjects. 

noun
  • The mouth or gob. 

  • Idle chatter. 

  • One of the open-forked ends of rods controlling reversing in early steam engines. 

go around the houses

verb
  • Do something (especially talking) circuitously. 

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