| 单词 | chew the fat |
| 释义 | chew the fat (once / 328315 pages) v When you chew the fat with your friends, you sit around chatting and gossiping with them. Nothing too important gets discussed when you chew the fat — it's most often a light, social kind of talking. The expression may be related to "chew the cud," which means to talk aimlessly, ruminating over the same subject in a casual way, like a cow chewing its cud. It also seems that chew the fat evolved from an original nineteenth century British meaning, "to grumble, grouse, or complain." WORD FAMILYchew the fat: chewing the fat, chews the fat USAGE EXAMPLESShe would chew the fat with friends, smartphone in hand, laughing. BBC(Jul 28, 2016) Nobody but nobody loves to backslap and chew the fat like Slick Willie, after all. Salon(Jan 07, 2016) Eating out appeals to the Cariocas’ natural sociability, allowing colleagues to spend time together chewing the fat outside the office. The Guardian(Jul 06, 2015) v talk socially without exchanging too much information Syn|Hypo|Hyper chaffer, chat, chatter, chit-chat, chitchat, claver, confab, confabulate, gossip, jaw, natter, shoot the breeze, visit jawbone, schmoose, schmooze, shmoose, shmooze talk idly or casually and in a friendly way converse, discourse carry on a conversation |
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