make conversation

Definitions

1. 1

   To talk with someone out of courtesy, to pass time, or in an effort to engage with them…

   To talk with someone out of courtesy, to pass time, or in an effort to engage with them socially.

   • They had their meals with Mr. Gibson and Molly, and were felt to be terribly in the way; Mr. Gibson not being a man who could make conversation, and hating the duty of talking under restraint.
   • Lee felt that disaster lurked ahead, and he did his best to stave it off by making conversation.
   • […] mechanically like a hostess whose mind is elsewhere but who must make conversation with however uninteresting a guest, she said, ‘Pretty girl, jig jig, one pound.’

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