Synonyms:
spiel, patter, line_of_gab
Meaning: plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson)
Usage examples
Like the music in the patter of small feet
Marcella came up to the nursery and played all day, watching the rain patter upon the new tin gutter.
Impulsively, I started toward him to remonstrate against the extravagance, but stopped as I heard the patter of rain against the windows.
Seldom indeed had the old hall despite its many years, seen such a running to and fro, heard such a patter of flying feet, such merry voices, such gay, and heart-felt laughter.
In the radiance of the spring, she saw them, and in the glory of the autumn; she breathed the fragrance of the pines in winter and heard the soft patter of summer rains on widespreading leaves.
I thought the Cantankerous Old Lady, who was a shrewd person in her way, must surely see through this obvious patter; but I had under-estimated the average human capacity for swallowing flattery.