"ENCHER LINGUIÇA" in English

Do you have any idea of how to say "encher linguiça" in English? 

Well, it's a very common practice among many people, especially students. Whenever they don't know what to say in a presentation or even what to write in a composition, they tend to PAD OUT!

And that's why I researched about it. Correcting my students' oral presentations, I concluded some of them, mostly the ones who didn't get prepared for the activity, padded out, over and over...as if I wouldn't get it...(Oh Lord!)

Teachers complain students often pad their compositions out, and students are used to say a teacher they don't like much likes padding classes out. Both do it in order to gain some extra time or fill this time, usually with unnecessary information. They do so just because they intend to show they know a lot about the content. But they don't, indeed.

Aren't politicians a good example 

of people who like to pad out?

Source: English Experts