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Barber suggests, for example, that managers set aside time during virtual meetings for casual chit chat, rather than diving straight into work matters.

We made chit chat and talked about The Trilateral Commission in general terms.

Throughout the day, you would overhear chit-chat about the ongoing tug-of-war between libertarians and social conservatives.

As for using Pollard as a chit, the question remains: for what?

This is the kind of thing that makes for backyard fence chit chat, and it can stick like molasses.

There are smiles, idle chit chat, and small courtesies evident as they enter and depart the courtroom.

Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.

She had no wish to emulate, but neither did she relish feeling provincial, a chit, an outsider.

That chit of a child set down the biscuit, but she snatched up a big cake worth twice as much.

But the idea of dressing that chit up in a violet silk gown fit for a married woman!

May a man not win back to life but a chit of a maid must snatch his chance away?