talking shop 
(also talk shop)
noun British
A place or group regarded as a centre for unproductive talk rather than action: the committee will become a bureaucratic talking shop, needing endless papers and briefings...
- If the electorate knew that these elections were just the first of many for talking shops under international regulation they might have been less willing to put up with the long queues and ink-checks.
- The art schools were great talking shops, but at the same time, he recalls, London itself was also grey a place where it was hard to get garlic or spices.
- There should in my view be no new legislative institutions, no new talk shops.
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