I'm sure you have more important things to do than sit here and make idle conversation.

"Maybe he's just tired of listening to all this idle conversation."

Even idle conversation had a way of reaching me wrong ears.

They rode for close to an hour, making idle conversation about the weather.

"It's not like you to waste time in idle conversation."

"We want to keep this channel open for crucial data, not idle conversation."

"I want people coming away learning something, rather than be distracted by idle conversation," he said.

Here was not a place where one engaged in idle conversation.

Indeed the weather is not just a source for idle conversation.

Do you want to spend our time in idle conversation and parlor games?