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drag something out

Delay a decision by dragging, stretching, extending the conversation by injecting incidentals or humdrum history/misinformation/disproved calculations and extrapolations:
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Allow me to remind you that we have spent over an hour repeating ourselves, chiding one another with trivial speculations, dispensing devilish details and diatribe!

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Submitted by WerterBuch on September 15, 2015

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