chew the fat

"It has been really good to chew the fat on what happened and really get a grasp of what we need to do and what needs to change," Sleightholme told BBC Sport.

The field is young and many projects are still in their infancy; humanity is not on the verge of having a Rosetta Stone for whale songs or the ability to chew the fat with cats.

We were just chewing the fat one day, and he said, “Every sport has to be some mix of art and war.”

“We ain’t got time to chew the fat. Grab that Story Box for me, will you?”

It’s the middle of the last ice age and you are in the cave on a cold winter’s night chewing the fat, and I don’t mean gossiping.