shop talk , also: shoptalk

Before I even had a chance to talk to him he was all round the shop talking to everyone.

You need shop talk from others who have been through the same mill.

When it was shop talk, yes; something involving business at hand.

When he returned to the living room, the usual shop talk had started.

And it was always the best kind of shop talk."

Still, we didn't spend the majority of our time on shop talk.

Also according to custom, there was no shop talk during the meal.

Maybe she'd stop by and do some shop talk, some night.

There was not a lot of shop talk at the black-tie dinner.

"If you two are getting married at once, you'll be too busy for shop talk.

Too much shop talk can simply murder a party.

And his new colleagues usually engaged in pretty interesting shop talk, anyway.

They engaged in shop talk for a little while.

Conversation over dinner, of course, began with catching up on family matters, then turned to shop talk.

There was shop talk, much of it too specific to interest any but the over-informed.

Yet his shop talk makes me want to go back to the practice of medicine.'

It was shop talk between a couple of professionals.

"The world's going up in flames, and he's playing shop talk about hospitals."

Okay, shop talk and humanitarian plea time is over, Buchanan thought.

The little party in the machine shop talked at some length about Tom's battery.

There were project scientists as dinner guests and the conversation was mostly shop talk.

"I'm boring you with all this shop talk," he said.

But no amount of shop talk could deflect Roy's anger.

I am no magician and shop talk generally bores me.

The bracing beverage and the twenty minutes or so of shop talk helped.