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Talk shop

verb

Discuss matters that are related to work.

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"Talk shop" Quotes from Famous Books

... as only flying can produce, they appreciatively discuss their lunch, and with many a grateful thought for the donors—and they talk shop. They can't help it, and even golf is a poor second to flight talk. Says the Pilot, who must have his grievance, "Just observe where I managed to stop the machine. Not twenty feet from this hedge! A little more and we should have been through it and into Kingdom ...

— The Aeroplane Speaks - Fifth Edition • H. Barber

... "We won't talk shop," she said gently. "It isn't good for you. Don't think about such things any ...

— The Bells of San Juan • Jackson Gregory

... out of it. It's a rich man's game. And at that, there's no fun in it unless you risk more than you can afford to lose. Well, let's not talk shop. You're an artist, Mr. Corthell. What do you ...

— The Pit • Frank Norris

... office (built by himself in the back garden), grave men and true, pending the supper hour, would smoke and sip spirits-and-water, and talk shop; formally at first, and with much politeness. But gradually, feeling their way, as it were, they would relax into social unbuttonment, and drop the "Mister" before each other's names (to be resumed next morning), and indulge in lively professional chaff, which ...

— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al

... the rocks. And now to be unconscious of it! But that was only a pose, she decided. Yet what made him so stupidly commonplace, and so dense? She hated to be robbed of her enthusiasm for an artistic bric-a-brac of emotion; and here he was, like some sordid mechanic who would not talk shop ...

— The Missourian • Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle