井い戸ど端ばた会かい議ぎ

noun

idle gossip; watercooler talk; content-free chat

Refers to casual, often trivial conversation among neighbors or colleagues, originally evoking women chatting while drawing water from the communal well.

• 近きん所じょの奥おくさんたちが井い戸ど端ばた会かい議ぎに花はなを咲さかせている。

  The neighborhood ladies are deep in idle gossip.

• 休きゅう憩けい室しつではいつも井い戸ど端ばた会かい議ぎが繰くり広ひろげられている。

  Watercooler talk is always going on in the break room.