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idle talk

n. idle or foolish and irrelevant talk [syn: prate, prattle, blether, chin music]

Usage examples of "idle talk".

Yet what they say upsets and demolishes much of that idle talk of our adversaries about the impossibility of the resurrection.

The idle talk on the other side of the room continued, and I heard Joe close the door of the safe and walk back across the room.

The Hat Creek outfit was hardly known as a traildriving bunch, but on the other hand Captain Call was not a man to indulge in idle talk.