Meanings of idle chitchat in English

For the rest of the evening, there was little time for idle chitchat with anyone.

Usually quite adept at conversation, even idle chitchat when necessary, Audrey suddenly found herself unnaturally silent.

Because I don't content myself with idle chitchat.

Slow-moving and frail Essande might be, but she never wasted time in idle chitchat or stating the obvious.

It saves us the idle chitchat.

Were all the questions about his family, his past, idle chitchat to pass the time and practice her mannerisms?

From idle chitchat with the Duke she learned that the numbers on the drums were referred to as states.

Let's cut the idle chitchat.

Just wait, she thought-he'dprobably tattle to the cops that she was guilty of failing to engage in idle chitchat.

After several moments of idle chitchat, Rusan made up the excuse that he needed to run and make a phone call.

They'd chatted for a few minutes-light ,brief ,andcasual, mother and son, the kind of idle chitchat that occurred all the time.

But with one more glance at the man's curled lip and glowering expression, I concluded he would not be keen on idle chitchat.

She could've sworn she heard a catch in his voice, as if their conversation had somehow turned into something more than idle chitchat.

We made idle chitchat for a few minutes until we both realized how ridiculous it was, then got up and began to prowl around.

He was terrible at idle chitchat, and at wedding banquets could be found sitting alone at a table, examining the stamp-marks on the cutlery.

Audrey listened as Porter talked, responding to his idle chitchat often enough so he didn't realize that, for the most part, she wasn't really listening.