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Shop talk   /ʃɑp tɔk/   Listen
Shop talk

noun
1.
Talk about your business that only others in the same business can understand.





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"Shop talk" Quotes from Famous Books



... business, accepted the position—and made a signal failure. He appealed to the printers because he knew their problems—the things that lost them money, the troubles that caused them sleepless nights—and in a letter that bristled with shop talk he went straight to the point, told how he could help them out of at least ...
— Business Correspondence • Anonymous
... he was! There he had once more made a mistake and bothered his wife with his shop talk. But Mrs. Hanka was good enough to overlook it; nobody could have answered more patiently and sweetly ...
— Shallow Soil • Knut Hamsun
... went on, as such things will, idly, without purpose save to pass the time. Shop talk of the range it was. Tales of stealing, of working brands, and of branding unmarked yearlings at weaning time. Of this big cattleman and that, who practically stole whole herds, and thereby took long ...
— Lonesome Land • B. M. Bower


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