Given that the purpose of going through the palaver of re-creating a lost currency is to devalue it vis-a-vis the currency in people's hip pockets, leaving the euro is tantamount to announcing a major devaluation a year before it happens.

Hrabal suggested another word for his works: pábení, Englished by the writer Josef Škvorecký as “palavering,” meaning “idle chatter” or “flattering babble,” here intended to characterize looping, loopy conversation

No palaver about compromise.

an excuse for a sex palaver

all that stupid palaver about "untapped potential"

a delegation of American writers sent to the Soviet Union for one of their literary palavers