shop talk

NOUN
  1. talk about your business that only others in the same business can understand
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How To Use shop talk In A Sentence

  • When I was a kid I loved listening to all the shop talk around the breakfast table and dinner table.
  • `Don't let Marc monopolize the conversation with his shop talk," Anita warned lightly. LASTING TREASURES
  • `Don't let Marc monopolize the conversation with his shop talk," Anita warned lightly. LASTING TREASURES
  • `Don't let Marc monopolize the conversation with his shop talk," Anita warned lightly. LASTING TREASURES
  • The lady who owns the shop talks me into buying an ice cream.
  • Even when a previous chairman was taped in a Spanish knocking-shop talking about 'slappers' and the profit margin on replica shirts they kept loyal. Why it's continental glamour or bust for Sunderland and Newcastle | Louise Taylor
  • There's only one place in any large corporation where shop talk is banned, where rank means nothing and where the persecuted minority gather for regular support: The Smoking Room.
  • Autobiography prevails over shop talk, and every voice flickers with creative passion.
  • After another hour or two of shop talk and I was positively exhausted and dropped into bed like a sack of potatoes, only to wake up before 4 am, unable to sleep.
  • The son of a carpenter, Shumsky preferred the company of painters and scientists to those whose conversation was simply violinists' shop talk.
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