/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Shop
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To talk shop. To talk about one’s affairs or business, to illustrate by one’s business, as when Ollipod the apothecary talks of a uniform with rhubarb-coloured facings.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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