That was not as far-fetched a conversational gambit as it might sound.

Without much hope of any result I automatically started my routine conversational gambit.

I assumed I was the subject of this conversational gambit.

For want of a conversational gambit, he expanded on this.

Traffic jams have replaced house prices as the conversational gambit around the lunch tables lately.

As a conversational gambit it was somewhat risky.

So today I had a conversational gambit.

Kath Two understood that Bard's remark had been a conversational gambit and not just a bald assertion.

I wondered what possible conversational gambit I could slip that into -Are you certain you're completely human?

My least favorite conversational gambit.

But (as shown by the laugh and the sarcasm) he'd learned a conversational gambit or two during his decades in London.

I glance at it, but the front cover is ripped and the spine too creased to read the title, so that conversational gambit is out.

However, it does give you a certain edge in conversational gambits.

LockerRoom: There are certain suggestions and conversational gambits which are inappropriate in polite society.

Whenever she is here I find myself searching for conversational gambits to detain her.

The requisite number of minutes, the expected conversational gambits.