a talk, especially an informal one, between two or more people, in which news and ideas are exchanged
talk for the sake of politeness without having anything to say
a painting of a genre in which groups of figures are posed in a landscape or domestic setting, popular especially in the 18th century
a remark which is so surprising or embarrassing that it is difficult to find a polite reply
adultery, especially as formerly constituting grounds for the recovery of legal damages by a husband from his wife’s adulterous partner
den/die anderen nicht zu Wort kommen lassen
conversaban tratando de ser agradables
seguir*/perder* el hilo de la conversación