I wanted to take small-talk-over-dinner by the balls, shake it up and speed it up.
If you were suddenly in the same place for the entire work day, what would you talk about over dinner?
They would sometimes talk over dinner about an encounter they had at the office.
By the time England faced Estonia at Wembley on Friday night, the talk over dinner had taken on a very different hue after another extraordinary week – with a furious Platini grudgingly exiled from his Uefa domain having been banned for 90 days, like his one-time mentor Sepp Blatter, by Fifa's ethics committee.
The boys have started doing things as as normal as making videos for YouTube, as normal as going out to a restaurant a sit-down, knife-and-fork restaurant!—to talk over dinner and wine.
Dining and drinking Eavesdrop on crew talk over dinner at Lambrusqueria (Conde de Altea, 31-36; 011-34-963-340-753; entrees $14 to $25).
It helps to talk over dinner, he added, whether it means exchanging tips on houses coming onto the market or simply information on the best dry cleaners.
Making small talk over dinner with some Republicans in Muncie, I asked one if he had any plans to visit Britain.
They talk, over dinner, about politics, history, and faith, about national movements and local ones; they feel, all the time, that they're doing something.
The Mummy Congress is an obscure scientific conference held every three years, the last time in Arica, Chile: five 12-hour days of formal talks, then more talk over dinner at the Restaurant of the Dead.
