【明報專訊】"Hey, do you want to hear the latest gossip (小道消息)?" Maybelline asked Running Fox. At that, they stopped to chat ( 閒談 ) and after some time they heard a loud noise. "What's that?" Maybelline asked. "Pay no attention," Running Fox answered. "We're talking the bark off a tree, that's all." They laughed and laughed at that, for talk the bark off a tree is an Americanism meaning to talk on and on - and on! "People always did say I could talk the bark off a tree," Maybelline smiled.