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Encher linguiça

Portuguese

Meaning

To beat around the bush / To pad out

Example

Não vá encher linguiça só para deixar sua resposta mais impressionante.

Don't pad out your answer to make it seem impressive.

Origin

The phrase refers to the old Portuguese practice of stuffing sausages — filling the casing with as much cheap padding as possible. Metaphorically, to 'fill sausage' = to pad a speech or a text with nothing.