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Mandarin · pinyin fèi huà

to talk at length
to waste one's breath
variant of 廢話 fèi huà

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話: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect
费: fèi · expenses, expenditures, fee
话: huà · speech, talk, language; dialect

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4–4 · fei4 hua4

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