talk shop
IdiomsExample Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Three times a year, several hundred of the techies who keep North America’s internet running gather to talk shop.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 3, 2026
This is where researchers, Parliamentary staff and the occasional MP come to talk shop and catch up with gossip.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2025
Whatever happens during the Academy Awards on March 10, Miller admits that just being able to meet, admire and talk shop with his fellow creatives, artists and animators makes the awards circuit worthwhile.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
“I started a talk shop with the team. And I found that we were using the same coding libraries.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2023
I use the Colonel all I can against him, and the innocent old man will talk shop with him by the hour.
From At Plattsburg by Allen French
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.
