palaver
hot air
empty words
empty talk
rhetoric **

Is it empty talk, the old saying that tact keeps you whole?

"More empty talk," a journalist said to me the other day.

They were of the opinion that the Philadelphia news was a lot of empty talk.

The truth is not his empty talk about eliminating "waste."

Such empty talk is the custom among my people.

It seems to have been Africa's fate to become a theater of empty talk and public gestures.

It's all empty talk, while everything in the country is gradually falling apart.

A confident statement, but empty talk for the moment.

Mill owners had seen the strike threat as more empty talk from the union.