talk like an apothecary

Verb

 * 1)  To prattle.
 * 2) * 1824, Naso., Sneezing, in The New Monthly Magazine, volume X, page 152:
 * As to Clement of Alexandria, I shall pass him by, as he knew nothing about the matter. He talks like an apothecary on the subject; and when did ever an apothecary talk to any purpose?
 * 1) * July, 1807, Omar and Fatima; or, the Apothecary of Ispahan, published in the Literary Magazine and American Register, volume VIII, number 46, page 6:
 * "And you have so little of the former left," said the old woman, as she presented him with a plate of the aliment and a glass of the menstruum, "that without we have a fresh supply, I foresee that you will be reduced to live upon your own medicines."
 * "You do not talk like an apothecary," said Nadir, "if you expect that I could exist upon them in the way you suggest."