空話連篇 [－话连－]

Jyutping hung1 waa6 lin4 pin1
Pinyin kōng huà lián piān

Definitions (CC-CEDICT)
  1. long-winded empty talk
Definitions (Wiktionary)
  1. phrase, idiomatic
    endless pages of empty verbiage; long talk with no real substance
Examples (Wiktionary)
  1. Mandarin
    现在许多同志的文章，空话连篇的也有，但比较少；主要的缺点就是古文多，半文半白的味道很大。
    現在許多同志的文章，空話連篇的也有，但比較少；主要的缺點就是古文多，半文半白的味道很大。
    xiàn zài xǔ duō tóng zhì de wén zhāng ， kōng huà lián piān de yě yǒu ， dàn bǐ jiào shǎo ； zhǔ yào de quē diǎn jiù shì gǔ wén duō ， bàn wén bàn bái de wèi dào hěn dà ．
    • Now, of the articles written by many comrades, some are long-winded and devoid of substance, but these are relatively few; the chief defects are an overuse of classical Chinese and too strong a flavour of the semi-literary, semi-vernacular style.