talk idly
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Imagining herself in Chelsea's predicament, Monica used to talk idly, Ginsburg says, about "poor Chelsea" having to live in a college dorm with Secret Service agents nearby.
From Time Magazine Archive
I had to bear up a little while, for they were in my house, and I must bid them good-night, and talk idly, so that they should not suspect the wound I had.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various
To talk of adding lustre to the name of Wollaston by their medal, is to talk idly.
From Reflections on the Decline of Science in England by Babbage, Charles
Prate, prāt, v.i. to talk idly: to tattle: to be loquacious.—v.t. to speak without meaning or purpose: to let out, as a secret.—n. trifling talk.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Do I talk idly, or is this the truth?
From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles
