"per le lunghe" meaning in Italian

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          "word": "tirare per le lunghe"
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          "english": "to postpone",
          "literal_meaning": "to send in prolongation",
          "text": "mandare per le lunghe",
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          "english": "to drag on",
          "literal_meaning": "to go as to drag on",
          "text": "andare per le lunghe",
          "translation": "to drag on",
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          "english": "Unlike the state legislature, where many members were content to keep their heads down, often not knowing what the hell was going on, my new colleagues were well briefed and not shy with their opinions, which caused committee meetings to drag on interminably and made me far more sympathetic to those who’d suffered through my own verbosity in law school and Springfield.",
          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, translated by Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, and Giuseppe Maugeri, Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:",
          "text": "A differenza che nell'assemblea legislativa dell'Illinois, però, dove molti si accontentavano di tenere la testa bassa, spesso senza nemmeno sapere cosa diavolo stesse accadendo, i miei nuovi colleghi erano sempre informati di tutto e per nulla restii a esprimere le loro opinioni, cosa che comportava il fatto che le riunioni di commissione si trascinassero per le lunghe, rendendomi molto più comprensivo verso quanti avevano dovuto subire la mia verbosità alla Law School e a Springfield.",
          "translation": "Unlike the state legislature, where many members were content to keep their heads down, often not knowing what the hell was going on, my new colleagues were well briefed and not shy with their opinions, which caused committee meetings to drag on interminably and made me far more sympathetic to those who’d suffered through my own verbosity in law school and Springfield.",
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        "in a way that prolongs fastidiously; as to drag on"
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  "word": "per le lunghe"
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          "english": "to postpone",
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          "text": "mandare per le lunghe",
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          "ref": "2020, Barack Obama, translated by Chicca Galli, Paolo Lucca, and Giuseppe Maugeri, Una terra promessa [A Promised Land], Garzanti Libri:",
          "text": "A differenza che nell'assemblea legislativa dell'Illinois, però, dove molti si accontentavano di tenere la testa bassa, spesso senza nemmeno sapere cosa diavolo stesse accadendo, i miei nuovi colleghi erano sempre informati di tutto e per nulla restii a esprimere le loro opinioni, cosa che comportava il fatto che le riunioni di commissione si trascinassero per le lunghe, rendendomi molto più comprensivo verso quanti avevano dovuto subire la mia verbosità alla Law School e a Springfield.",
          "translation": "Unlike the state legislature, where many members were content to keep their heads down, often not knowing what the hell was going on, my new colleagues were well briefed and not shy with their opinions, which caused committee meetings to drag on interminably and made me far more sympathetic to those who’d suffered through my own verbosity in law school and Springfield.",
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