Conversation about one's occupation or business at an informal or social occasion.
(在非正式或社交场合里)有关本行的谈话
they kept off further shop talk until they were having coffee
Example sentencesExamples
Autobiography prevails over shop talk, and every voice flickers with creative passion.
Finally, there is plenty of shop talk in his conversations to keep film students and film buffs interested.
And now, if you wouldn't mind, I'd like to stop with the shop talk while we eat.
The son of a carpenter, Shumsky preferred the company of painters and scientists to those whose conversation was simply violinists' shop talk.
After another hour or two of shop talk and I was positively exhausted and dropped into bed like a sack of potatoes, only to wake up before 4 am, unable to sleep.
There's only one place in any large corporation where shop talk is banned, where rank means nothing and where the persecuted minority gather for regular support: The Smoking Room.
I turned, preparing myself for more shop talk, then stopped and stared.
When I was a kid I loved listening to all the shop talk around the breakfast table and dinner table.