chew the fat

短语

闲谈

发音

AU

词形变化

chewed the fat chewing the fat chews the fat 三单 chews the fat chewing the fat 现在分词 chewed the fat 过去式 chewed the fat 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To chat idly or generally waste time talking.

    非正式

    We're not supposed to waste time chewing the fat with the customers.

词汇关系

动词

同义词 10

visit chatter chat gossip jaw chitchat shoot the breeze confabulate chaffer claver

上位词 2

converse discourse

下位词 5

jawbone schmooze schmoose shmoose shmooze

词源

One of the possible origins is from the fact that after a meal people would go into their sitting room with their guests and chit chat while chewing on the fat left over from a meal. Another possibility comes from sailors who often had salted beef and pork on long voyages and the fat would harden. Sailors would eat and complain about the hard life of the sea while "chewing the fat" Probably just from comparison of the jaw movements in chewing to the jaw movements in talking.

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