talk idly

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Imagining herself in Chelsea's predicament, Monica used to talk idly, Ginsburg says, about "poor Chelsea" having to live in a college dorm with Secret Service agents nearby.

From Time Magazine Archive

Do I talk idly, or is this the truth?

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

He knew that now he must tend this monster forever, grease and wipe the ugly metal of it, and sit and talk idly to MacNamara, its keeper.

From The Hell Ship by Palmer, Raymond Alfred

"He used to send trifling verses from court to the Scriblerus Club every day, and would come and talk idly with them almost every night, even when his all was at stake."

From A History of the Four Georges, Volume I by McCarthy, Justin

I had to bear up a little while, for they were in my house, and I must bid them good-night, and talk idly, so that they should not suspect the wound I had.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 by Various