Without the right attitude initially or if the idea is simply to go and parley, chew the fat, talk over coffee, how will they get down to negotiations?
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I meet fairly regularly with the analyst at Newcastle Falcons, Martin Hastie, to chew the fat, and with one of the professional football sides.
I am meeting Peter for coffee next week but that's just to catch up and chew the fat.
Quick, get us a part-time job on the tills at Twilight star Robert Pattinson's local so we can chew the fat over a loaf of bread.
At Blanch's hut, which is inscribed with graffiti from before World War II, they boil a billy and chew the fat with venison hunter Allan Tall.
