The appointment is all the more bizarre given that only a month ago Netanyahu described Lieberman as a lazy amateur and “a petty prattler” who was not fit to be a military analyst.

Let the useless mouths go hungry, the windbags and the prattlers.

Her sisters, pretty prattlers then, four and six years of age, were led into the house by their governess.

He smiles on his babes, as some strive for his knee, And some to their mother's neck cling, While playful the prattlers for place disagree, The roof with their shrill trebles ring.

“Has Hoggie gone to heaven, pa?” this same prattler asked me in the evening.