Chew The Fat (Verb)
Meaning
Talk socially without exchanging too much information; "the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze".
Classification
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing.
Examples
- They spent hours at the bar, chewing the fat about nothing in particular.
- Colleagues often meet for lunch to chew the fat and catch up on each other's lives.
- After attending the class, the students would gather outside to chew the fat and socialize.
- At family gatherings, my uncles would spend hours chewing the fat by the fireplace.
- Rather than attending the conference sessions, some attendees preferred to chew the fat in the lobby.
Synonyms
- Jaw
- Natter
- Gossip
- Shoot The Breeze
- Chit-chat
- Claver
- Chitchat
- Visit
- Confabulate
- Chatter
- Chaffer
- Chat
- Confab