Usually means: Talk continuously in dull manner.
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  3. drone on: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  10. drone on: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Definitions from Wiktionary (drone on)

▸ verb:  (intransitive) to talk in a boring manner for a long time.

Similar:
drone, run on, keep on, go on, talk someone under the table, spiel, drivel, harp on one string, talk a blue streak, drill, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, point, pithy

Types:
prattle, babble, blather, chatter, more...

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Similar:
drone, run on, keep on, go on, talk someone under the table, spiel, drivel, harp on one string, talk a blue streak, drill, more...

Opposite:
concise, succinct, brief, point, pithy

Types:
prattle, babble, blather, chatter, more...



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