More to the point, one wonders whether this sort of chitchat is really authentic enough to justify its dullness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prisoner of Cool] Reference

He has things to do before he takes the field against the archrival Dodgers, and idle chitchat is not one of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [USATODAY.com - Focused on the finish line] Reference

She felt obligated to make some kind of chitchat, however desultory.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a Strange City]

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I heard some chitchat about.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 27, 2009] Reference

He talked to her as he drove - idle chitchat, mostly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Atticus] Reference

So, there was a lot of sort of chitchat, as I am told.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 27, 2008] Reference

But they told me before I showed up, no - no chitchat.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2006] Reference

And cocktails and chitchat at Hillary Clinton's house.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2008] Reference

And there's also some astrology and celebrity chitchat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christina García's "The Lady Matador's Hotel," reviewed by Carolyn See] Reference

And, of course, there would be chitchat in those situations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2007] Reference

Just a little bit of chitchat with the officers next to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2006] Reference

You can't chitchat on the cell phone, you know, to your mates.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 30, 2008] Reference

And he wasn't accustomed to carrying on long chitchat with aliens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victory] Reference

M. O'BRIEN: Naturally, there is the tendency to do a lot of chitchat.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 18, 2007] Reference

Look at it this way: Murdoch doesn't go in for chitchat at these affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Suddenly Sassa At Nbc] Reference

If you want gossip, celebrity chitchat, it's out there in lethal amounts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2004] Reference

They quote Ford saying, "My sense from Rich is that it was just chitchat.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2006] Reference

We are out of time, so we're just going to chitchat about this off camera.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2003] Reference

The insider chitchat that you didn't hear at the State of the Union speech.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 30, 2008] Reference

No chitchat on takeoff, on landing, only essential conversations are allowed.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2009] Reference

We have got so much to chitchat about this morning, so let's get right to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2005] Reference

It's as if O'Donnell has got four years of chitchat stored up and ready to go.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rosie's New View] Reference

 I stared at the women in the room as we made idle chitchat between issuances.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Broker] Reference

Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2006] Reference

First of all, when those sirens go off, less chitchat and get in a little faster.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2006] Reference

In the office, computer mail has transformed idle chitchat into an all-day affair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology In Reverse] Reference

CASSIE RED, BARTENDER: There's a lot of speculation going around, a lot of chitchat.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 7, 2007] Reference

Deeply committed to his country and had very little, he said, no diplomatic chitchat.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2001] Reference

But they told me before I showed up, no chitchat, just sit down and ask the question.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2006] Reference

You were talking about sort of a little bit of chitchat, an exchange between the crew.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2005] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think what I like about him, he didn ` t do the chitchat nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 9, 2005] Reference

Coughing, poorly tuned guitars, boring chitchat: they're all part of the new CD anthology craze.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Than You Want To Hear] Reference

Obama knew about Fallows's reporting on Iraq and the Pentagon, so he didn't waste time on chitchat.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Obama Needs to Know] Reference

A little general chitchat once in a while, then she'd clam up to do a little mental orbit figuring.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spaceship Named McGuire] Reference