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Idioms and Phrases

Converse about one's business or profession, as in Whenever John and his dad get together, they talk shop . [Mid-1800s]
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Example Sentences

The Theater Wing is guaranteed 60 seconds where they get to talk shop.

We just want to share unlimited Bloody Marys and talk shop with two of the coolest women in show business.

Tina Brown, Arianna Huffington, Jezebel's Anna Holmes, MTV's Judy McGrath and ABC's Deborah Roberts talk shop.

Dear Mr. Home, she said, with all the brilliance of unpremeditated invention, do talk shop with me for one minute.

I must talk shop, cried Lady Manorwater when they were seated at table.

I'd found out that the best way to keep Effie's talk shop runnin' was to agree with her.

We did not talk shop all the time; the "green Englishwomen" were put through a severe catechism on Canadian as it is spoken.

"Oh, by all means talk shop," begged Danes, as he slipped into a chair at one side of the table.

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