"The chatterers, you see, are actors of a certain vintage," he continued.
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Chatterers said her parents pushed her, though in fact they could not keep her away.
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An investigation of voter estrangement has never felt more urgent, and we're certainly not getting one from the lacquered chatterers on the boob tube.
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All day, cable chatterers ranted about this being a significant moment in American history, but no one was sure yet what the significance was.
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Conversation is to Ceylan as the clash of metal monsters is to Michael Bay, and there are times in the latest film when the chatterers seem unable to stop.
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How can we trust the nuclear codes to someone so incoherent, Fox chatterers cry, who doesn't always seem to know what day it is or what office he's running for?
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His promises to "end the wars" in Iraq and Afghanistan satisfied the cosmopolitan chatterers of Stockholm, Paris and New York, but they deflated American allies in Baghdad and Kabul, and emboldened adversaries in Iran and Pakistan.
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Ever since Donald Trump was elected, the mandarins and chatterers of the capital have been alarmed that we would get to this precipice of blustery, threatening exchanges between Trump and Kim Jong-un about thermonuclear annihilation, and that when we did, it would be parlous.
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In Hindi, Bandar means "monkey" and log means "people" – hence the term simply refers to "monkey people". The term has also since come to refer to "any body of irresponsible chatterers."Entry for bandar-log in the Oxford English Dictionary Online, 2013 - The entry for bandar-log has not been updated since 1933.
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The Japanese identified and described the most musical cricket haunts centuries ago, long before they began keeping them at home.Hearn, pp. 46–47. According to Hearn, the Japanese esteemed crickets far higher than the cicadas, which were considered "vulgar chatterers" and were never caged.Hearn, p. 42. The first poetic description of matsumushi is credited to Ki no Tsurayuki (905 A.D.).
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An online translation When the caricaturist J. J. Grandville illustrated the Fables in 1838 he updated the social comment, using animals instead of humans. At an Academy exhibition, a fox glances sideways at a pompous portrait bust that is being examined closely by an ass, with the figures of a uniformed duck and an owlish dandy in the background. The German philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing also reinterpreted the fable in 1759, identifying chatterers as its target.
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