English
Verb
talk shop
- (intransitive, informal) To discuss one's work, business or profession.
Usage notes
- This is an idiomatic instance of a general construction consisting of talk with the topic area as object of the verb. One can talk baseball, talk philosophy, or talk trash.
Translations
discuss one's work
- Arabic:
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 三句不離本行, 三句不离本行 (sān jù bù lí běn háng)
- Czech:
- Dutch: over haar werk blijven praten
- Finnish: puhua (fi) työstään (fi)
- French:
- German: fachsimpeln
- Hungarian:
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- Italian: parlare di lavoro
- Japanese:
- Polish: rozmawiać o pracy
- Portuguese: falar de negócios/negócio
- Russian: говори́ть о рабо́те impf (govorítʹ o rabóte)
- Serbo-Croatian: razgovarati o poslu
- Spanish: hablar de negocios
- Swedish:
- Vietnamese:
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See also
Noun
talk shop (plural talk shops)
- A talking shop
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