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Idiom

talk about the weather

Meaning

To chit-chat; to shoot the breeze.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“We just talk about the weather when we meet in the hall.”

“I did not know what to say to my new neighbor, so we spent ten minutes talking about the weather.”

“Rather than addressing the tension in the room, the colleagues chose to talk about the weather until the meeting finally began.”

Examples

simple

“We just talk about the weather when we meet in the hall.”

contextual

“I did not know what to say to my new neighbor, so we spent ten minutes talking about the weather.”

complex

“Rather than addressing the tension in the room, the colleagues chose to talk about the weather until the meeting finally began.”

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