Swedish Mycket snack och lite verkstad (lit. much talk and little workshop)Too much time spent talking (e.g. in meetings) and not enough on getting work done.
Maybe there's a common English equivalent to this idiom that I've missed. I've sometimes wanted to use it when working abroad, so I missed it then. ;)
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