small talk

Suddenly, she could exercise without her body getting sore, colleagues made more small talk with her and she felt comfortable going on adventurous dates with her boyfriend.

They painted next to each other for a bit, making small talk.

He tried politely to get the requisite small talk out of the way, and despite my nervousness, I was game.

"I can be in a group and it's keeping up with conversations, knowing what to say... it's not knowing the rules of small talk," said Andrew, who lives in Mount Pleasant, Swansea.

There were hugs, there was small talk, there were thanks for their actions during the Club Q massacre.