"smalltalk" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1996, Siobhán Parkinson, Sisters … No Way! (Cindy’s Diary), Dublin: The O’Brien Press, published 2005, →ISBN, pages 50–51:",
          "text": "It’s a bit difficult making smalltalk with a teacher, especially when they have to crane their neck to look up at you.",
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          "ref": "2014, Lucie Whitehouse, Before We Met, London: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 150:",
          "text": "Hannah pictured Mark and herself sitting smiling over a stiff white tablecloth and single, interview-appropriate glasses of wine, making smalltalk and pretending everything was fine, that they were an ordinary happy couple, no stolen savings or hidden killer brothers to muddy the crystalline marital waters.",
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          "ref": "2016, Peter McLean, Drake (A Burned Man Novel), Nottingham, Notts.: Angry Robot, →ISBN, page 102:",
          "text": "“Don,” she said, and pushed the hair back from her eyes with an irritated sweep of her hand, “if the health of my toads is your idea of smalltalk while we work then I think I’d rather you just kept quiet, if it’s all the same to you.”",
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          "text": "“Don,” she said, and pushed the hair back from her eyes with an irritated sweep of her hand, “if the health of my toads is your idea of smalltalk while we work then I think I’d rather you just kept quiet, if it’s all the same to you.”",
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