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

In his turn her husband spoke of his affairs, which he enjoyed revealing at dinner, this evening’s palaver being devoted to the chamber’s discussion of some newly proposed regulations against the adulteration of food.

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

After all that palaver about Danty and the sunset, the old ratbag was asking a thousand quid