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make conversation
Idioms and Phrases
Engage someone in talking purely for its own sake, make small talk, as in She had a real talent for making conversation with strangers . [c. 1920]Example Sentences
Trying to make conversation, Beauvais mentioned that she loved Reba’s “smart and sweet†grandchildren.
With the goal of meeting other women my age, I began attending book signings, workshops or menopause symposiums solo so that I would be forced to work through my social anxiety and make conversation.
An Israeli news website, Ynet, reported that the men had told their captors that they were Argentine and had tried to make conversation by talking about soccer.
“As if to make conversation or sort of break the ice, he took me aside and said, ‘I got a new van recently, and I’m enjoying the hell out of it,’†Merlis remembered with a laugh.
He said he pushed Spacey away and tried to make conversation.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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