chew the fat

But he immediately “loved everything — just hanging out there, chewing the fat and hearing the stories of the jornaleros.”

"It has been really good to chew the fat on what happened and really get a grasp of what we need to do and what needs to change," Sleightholme told BBC Sport.

The field is young and many projects are still in their infancy; humanity is not on the verge of having a Rosetta Stone for whale songs or the ability to chew the fat with cats.

We were just chewing the fat one day, and he said, “Every sport has to be some mix of art and war.”

“We ain’t got time to chew the fat. Grab that Story Box for me, will you?”