As if they had last met at a cocktail party.
She had made up her mind at the cocktail party.
"You were talking to him at the cocktail party last night."
She would have called it a cocktail party, at most.
The first night after the cocktail party had been the start of it all.
You have always thought of it as a long cocktail party.
It is like trying to talk to everyone within 50 feet of you at a large cocktail party.
It's just not the sort of thing you bring up at an average cocktail party.
Then, one afternoon she went to a cocktail party without him.
Sometimes, the web is more of a cocktail party than a club meeting.