table talk

American  

noun

1. informal conversation at meals.

2. a subject that is considered appropriate for conversation at meals.

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table talk British  

noun

1. informal conversation on a range of topics, as that at table during and after a meal

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Etymology

Origin of table talk

First recorded in 1560–70

Example Sentences

Table-talk ran its normal course; a great Pole's philosophy receiving flagellation at the hands of our incorrigible optimist.

From The Guest of Quesnay by Tarkington, Booth

Table-talk of G. B. S. Conversations on things in general, between George Bernard Shaw and his biographer, by Archibald Henderson. © 17Apr25, A822984.

From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1952 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Selden had formed some notions on this subject of quotations in his "Table-talk," art.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac

I tell him that some one should pick up his Table-talk and Letter-talk: for he of course would not do it himself. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis

He collected the unpublished MSS. of Luther, and edited the Epistol� and the Table-talk.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various