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talk the paint off of a wallstresses
idiom. убалтывать (Am.E.; the emphasis in the "talk the paint off of X" idiom is specifically the amount of time someone can spend talking (i.e. until the paint starts peeling off of the car, walls, barn, etc.) and it automatically implies tedium on the part of whoever has to listen to the person: My mom used to say that I could just talk paint off a wall Taras); уболтать (Am.E. Taras); забалтывать (Am.E. Taras); заболтать (Am.E. Taras)