idle chatter

And as the affable big man and his teammates prepared to face the Orlando Magic in this year’s opening round, he brushed off his assessment as idle chatter.

All of these similarities are more than just idle chatter.

Some group chats map almost exactly onto I.R.L. groups of friends and are used for a combination of idle chatter and social planning; one has become such a dominant feature of my social life that it is simply named “The Girls,” as if there were no other girls.

Sometimes it was a place for idle chatter about the rhythms of life, sports, music, love.

Like Havel, he hated idle chatter and would reply to discussions on the wrongs of the world with, "Well, what are we going to do about it?"