engage in small talk

to talk only about minor matters rather than important matters or personal matters. All the people at the party were engaging in small talk. They chatted about the weather and otherwise engaged in small talk.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Jillie	JIL-ee	English
Rosalind	['rɔzəlind]
Ramon	-	Catalan
Hasan	-	Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Indonesian
Srinivas	-	Indian, Telugu, Kannada, Tamil
David	DAY-vid (English), dah-VEED (Jewish, Spanish), da-VEED (French), DAH-vit (German, Dutch), DAH-vid (Swedish, Norwegian), dah-VEET (Russian)	English, Hebrew, French, Scottish, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, C