"chew the fat" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "One of the possible origins is from the fact that after a meal people would go into their sitting room with their guests and chit chat while chewing on the fat left over from a meal.\nAnother possibility comes from sailors who often had salted beef and pork on long voyages and the fat would harden. Sailors would eat and complain about the hard life of the sea while \"chewing the fat\"\nProbably just from comparison of the jaw movements in chewing to the jaw movements in talking.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chews the fat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewing the fat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed the fat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed the fat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "chew the fat (third-person singular simple present chews the fat, present participle chewing the fat, simple past and past participle chewed the fat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English predicates",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
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          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Talking",
          "orig": "en:Talking",
          "parents": [
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Human",
            "Communication",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We're not supposed to waste time chewing the fat with the customers.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To chat idly or generally waste time talking."
      ],
      "id": "en-chew_the_fat-en-verb-~Vo9b8E~",
      "links": [
        [
          "chat",
          "chat"
        ],
        [
          "idly",
          "idly"
        ],
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To chat idly or generally waste time talking."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "chew the cud"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chew the rag"
        },
        {
          "word": "shoot the breeze"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "shoot the shit"
        },
        {
          "word": "shoot the bull"
        },
        {
          "word": "throw the bull"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "chew the fat"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "One of the possible origins is from the fact that after a meal people would go into their sitting room with their guests and chit chat while chewing on the fat left over from a meal.\nAnother possibility comes from sailors who often had salted beef and pork on long voyages and the fat would harden. Sailors would eat and complain about the hard life of the sea while \"chewing the fat\"\nProbably just from comparison of the jaw movements in chewing to the jaw movements in talking.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chews the fat",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewing the fat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed the fat",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "chewed the fat",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "chew the fat (third-person singular simple present chews the fat, present participle chewing the fat, simple past and past participle chewed the fat)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "chew the cud"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English predicates",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Talking"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "We're not supposed to waste time chewing the fat with the customers.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To chat idly or generally waste time talking."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "chat",
          "chat"
        ],
        [
          "idly",
          "idly"
        ],
        [
          "waste time",
          "waste time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal) To chat idly or generally waste time talking."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "chew the rag"
        },
        {
          "word": "shoot the breeze"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "vulgar"
          ],
          "word": "shoot the shit"
        },
        {
          "word": "shoot the bull"
        },
        {
          "word": "throw the bull"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "informal"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "word": "chew the fat"
}