Brewer's: Shop

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.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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