beat gums



beat one's gums

to waste time talking a great deal without results. (As if one were toothless.) I'm tired of beating my gums about this over and over. You're just beating your gums. No one is listening.
See also: beat, gum

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
ŽArko-Serbian, Croatian
Huddleston['hʌdlstəun]
Tzillah-Biblical Hebrew
Jamie['dʒeimi]
Mikhael-Biblical Greek
MadilynMAD-ə-linEnglish (Modern)