idle small talk

We made idle small talk as we all settled into various chairs around the room.

Minaya and Randolph haven’t had any significant conversations this weekend outside of idle small talk.

Spaulding wasn't engaging in idle small talk. '

They had been making idle small talk while waiting for the science officer, most of which centered around how M'Ress was adjusting to her new home.

While Carson's mother Sheryl is picking up several prescriptions, she makes idle small talk with the cheerful new pharmacist April Adams (Christina Hendricks), who is six months pregnant.

He waited for everyone except the most junior of secretaries to precede him, hoping that no one would notice whether or not he had left the room; right now, he didn't want to talk to anyone, not even for idle small talk.

High School Revisited Given that some of the players in the Louima case have been playing together now since 1997, the downtime of deliberations, with its nervous pacing and idle small talk, has the jittery feeling of Homecoming Week.