engage in talk

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• engage in small talk — {v. phr.} To converse with a stranger or casual acquaintance about matters of no great importance in order to make the time go faster. * /The patients in the doctor s waiting room engaged in small talk complaining about the hot weather./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• engage in small talk — {v. phr.} To converse with a stranger or casual acquaintance about matters of no great importance in order to make the time go faster. * /The patients in the doctor s waiting room engaged in small talk complaining about the hot weather./ …   Dictionary of American idioms

• Talk Talk — Pays d’origine  Royaume Uni (Londres) Genre musical new wave, post rock Années d activité …   Wikipédia en Français

• talk — [n1] speech, address to group allocution, chalk talk*, declamation, descant, discourse, disquisition, dissertation, epilogue, exhortation, expatiation, harangue, homily, lecture, monologue, oration, peroration, prelection, recitation, screed,… …   New thesaurus

• talk — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. conversation; chatter, chat, gossip; speech, lecture, discourse; rumor, hearsay. v. say, speak, chat, converse, gossip. See news, information. talk into II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Human speech] Syn.… …   English dictionary for students

• talk cock — verb To talk nonsense or engage in idle chatter …   Wiktionary

• engage\ in\ small\ talk — v. phr. To converse with a stranger or casual acquaintance about matters of no great importance in order to make the time go faster. The patients in the doctor s waiting room engaged in small talk complaining about the hot weather …   Словарь американских идиом

• talk show — noun Date: 1965 a radio or television program in which usually well known persons engage in discussions or are interviewed …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• double-talk — dou′ble talk or dou′ble•talk n. 1) ling. speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter 2) deliberately evasive or ambiguous language 3) to engage in double talk 4) to accomplish or persuade by double talk • Etymology: 1935–40 …   From formal English to slang

• double-talk — double talker, n. /dub euhl tawk /, n. 1. speech using nonsense syllables along with words in a rapid patter. 2. deliberately evasive or ambiguous language: When you try to get a straight answer, he gives you double talk. v.i. 3. to engage in… …   Universalium

• small-talk — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ intransitive verb Etymology: small talk : to engage in or be given to small talk …   Useful english dictionary