coffee talk

plural coffee talks

1. idiomaticuncountableusuallyInformal conversation among friends or acquaintances, of the kind that occurs in a casual gathering where people sit together and drink coffee.

   Ms. Couric demonstrated a self-deprecating humor and a penchant for the giggle-filled coffee talk so familiar to the early-morning shows.

   2006 April 6, Edward Wyatt, “Katherine Anne Couric: Coming Back to Hard News”, in New York Times, retrieved 30 Dec 2017

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   "We didn't expect this," Kantamala said later of the exchange, "so I took this opportunity to say what I think." Said Press Secretary Mary Hoyt later, "Mrs. Carter would appreciate that kind of forthrightness. It takes it out of purely coffee talk and makes it something meaningful."

   1977 April 5, Donnie Radcliffe, “A Different Kind of Tea”, in Washington Post, retrieved 30 Dec 2017

   Ali and Jaser met occasionally for coffee to chat. . . . “Every so often he’d talk about radicalism and that,” said Ali. “I just thought it was coffee talk.”

   2013 May 3, Jessica McDiarmid, “Toronto terror plot”, in The Star, Canada, retrieved 30 Dec 2017