hold court
humorousto receive a lot of attention from other people who stand or sit around you to listen, especially on a social occasion:
Patrick is holding court at the end table.
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Ways of talking
- -mouthed
- babel
- blab
- blather
- croon
- declamatory
- drone
- drone on
- expressive
- hold the floor idiom
- loose
- lyrical
- meanderings
- rabbit
- sink to a whisper idiom
- tattle
- telegrammatic
- throw
- waffle
- yap
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