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drone on

disapproving phrasal verb with drone
 
/drəʊn/
 
US  /droʊn/ verb [I]

Definition

to talk for a long time in a boring way: He was droning on (and on) about his operation.Ways of talking
(Definition of drone on from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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