тары да бары

• ТАРЫ-БАРЫ (ТАРЫ ДА БАРЫ, ТАРЫ-БАРЫ-РАСТАБАРЫ) all highly coll

[NP; fixed WO]

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⇒ empty conversation, idle chatter:

- tittle-tattle;

- chitchat;

- chitter chatter;

- [when trying to get sth. from s.o., occas. in a relationship between the sexes] sweet talk;

- sweet-talking.

     ♦ Егорша решил: обстановка неподходящая. В избу к себе Раечку не затащишь, на маслозаводе постоянно вертятся люди, надо, видно, на природу выходить. Листочки, кустики, то-сё, тары-бары-растабары - растает (Абрамов 1). Egorsha decided it was the surroundings that were not conducive. Raechka would not let herself be dragged off to his place, and there was a constant mob of people at the dairy. So obviously she would have to be taken out into the wide-open spaces. The leaves, the bushes, this and that, a little sweet-talking-she'd melt! (1a).