Shoptalk

For chess buffs who tune in for some shoptalk from the game's most revered icon, there is this: ❋ Unknown (2002)

I don't use their names, as a matter of course, but, too, "shoptalk" or a good story over dinner does not a public record make. ❋ Ann Althouse (2005)

Tonight me and Paco will do some shoptalk while Remco is working late at a client's office. ❋ Nathreee (2009)

That leaves us with conversation, and the chitchat of artists usually alternates between shoptalk and gossip, which is interesting if you're in the business but otherwise pretty dull. ❋ Terry Teachout (2010)

But what I like best is the shoptalk among these guys who have all been trying to write the first draft of history, without much help from the primary participants. ❋ Unknown (2008)

According to court documents unsealed last week, some of the Russian agents spent more than 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars schmoozing American academics and policymakers, glad-handing for little more than casual gossip and shoptalk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ooops, I may have been a bit insensitive with my post, where I really wanted to shoptalk with you, a scriptwriter. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Today Sharansky sounds tired of the Knesset shoptalk — ten years "is enough," he says. ❋ Unknown (2008)

For the last few autumns, when America's real estate agents met at their annual convention, much of their shoptalk focused on navigating the red-hot housing market. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The men made up work most Saturdays, facile metal molding, "coulda closed my eyes," shoptalk and coffee, truck details, ❋ Dudemanflab (2007)

Rather, it serves as a weeklong infomercial for the party and its nominee-as well as a means of rewarding the party faithful and major contributors with four days of food, drink, entertainment, and shoptalk. ❋ Obama, Barack (2006)

"Boutique hotels" has become a slightly zestless piece of shoptalk in the hospitality industry as the self-proclaimed "luxurious" or "quirky" inns get progressively less luxurious and quirky. ❋ Unknown (2006)

New Orleans coffins needed to be in this accounting, and Indian myths; the arcana of lost river cities and towns; the confessions of dying men and the intimation of buried treasure; murderous family feuds; hymns to heroic pilots at the wheel of their burning boats; the overheard shoptalk of traveling salesmen; the lingering thunder of the Civil War and the legends of Grant; Sammy a boy again; Henry, alive. ❋ Ron Powers (2005)

Not one of those let™s-do-lunch things crammed with shoptalk but an honest-to-goodness date with a candlelit meal, white linen tablecloth, dressing up for the occasion and maybe a movie or a stage play after. ❋ Jensen, Kathryn, 1949- (2005)

Silence followed through which Firekeeper could hear the shoptalk without, the comings and goings of people buying medicines, perfumes, and spices. ❋ Unknown (2001)