A headline, an overheard conversation or a "missing" flier on a lamppost could start the tears flowing.
Inspiration for travel sometimes begins with a casual recommendation from a friend or an overheard conversation.
The film becomes amusingly strange with a typical Woody Allen moment: an overheard conversation at a local diner.
halfalogue: Half of a conversation, like an overheard phone call.
Then on the plane an overheard conversation by a businessman indicating that he was a war profiteer upset him further.
This isn't an overheard conversation in a back garden.
Swapping recollections with friends on a recent visit, he recalled an overheard conversation as "most typical of New York".
(The delay was due to, yes, "a wardrobe malfunction" backstage, according to an overheard conversation between two security guards).
He loved the idea of an interpreter at the United Nations and the conceit of an overheard conversation.
Writer quotes, at some length, from an overheard conversation.
What begins rather stiffly, as if acknowledging that this is an overheard correspondence, soon relaxes into something fine and leisurely.
