Synonyms:
chew_the_fat, shoot_the_breeze, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat, chit-chat, chatter, chaffer, natter, gossip, jaw, claver, visit
Meaning: talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze"
Usage examples
"Such a lovely little chat!
We could chat over old times--I'll order an extra supper--"
"Never mind," said Petruchio, "I love her better than ever, and long to have some chat with her."
Stephenson, whose business it is to get from Manchester to Liverpool, sets about filling up Chat Moss.
An ordinary chat began, while Clodagh turned up Peters' sleeve, and, kneeling there, injected his fore-arm.
I was preparing to surmount the barbed-wire fence again, when the planter returned and halted for another chat.
The little chat that Irene apparently enjoyed in the conservatory would gladly have become an act of forgetfulness on her part had not Sir John reminded her of its existence a few days afterwards.
The choicest quotations from the works of such established writers as "Aunt Charlotte" of Forget-Me-Not and "Doctor Cupid", the heart-expert of Home Chat, expended themselves fruitlessly on Reggie.
It chanced one day, as Peter sat Gnawing a crust--his usual meal-- Paul bustled in to have a chat, And grasped his hand with friendly zeal. 'I knew,' said he, 'your frugal ways: So, that I might not wound your pride By bringing strangers in to gaze, I've left my legal friend outside!
Slowly, very slowly, medical skill and tender, careful nursing told upon his exhausted frame till at length he seemed to awake to new life, began to notice what was going on about him, was able to take part in a cheerful chat now and then, and became eager for news from home and of the progress of the war.