Tailler une bavette

Literally: To cut a bib

Example: “Je l'ai croisée au marché et on a taillé une bavette pendant une heure.” — I ran into her at the market, and we shot the breeze for an hour.

English equivalent: To shoot the breeze

Origin: Not the cut of beef but bavette from baver, to dribble — by extension to talk freely. Tailler, to cut out cloth, gives the sense of shaping a conversation at leisure, the way one would cut out a bib.