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EXAMINING WORDS #9
Do You Like a Good Chin-Wag?
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1 min readFeb 16, 2023
This saying is very familiar ‘down under.’ I associate it more with a long verbal catch-up with someone you haven’t seen in a while, whether on the phone, over the fence or in passing.
I believe talking with my Aunt in New Zealand holds the record for the longest chinwag. When we get going, we can yack for three-plus hours! However, it is only because we seldom talk, that we always have a year or two of news to catch up on.
To be perfectly honest, I’m not the greatest at picking up the phone — or being on it at length — anymore. It’s not that I don’t care about my kids, parents or siblings. I work on the philosophy no news is good news.
When we do have something to say, we’ll have a brief chinwag!
