I figured it might yield some clues which, if nothing else, would provide interesting after-dinner conversation, so I grabbed for it and him.

"This is meant to be a polite after-dinner conversation is it?"

The affliction was a subject for after-dinner conversation whenever he felt like talking about it, which was almost every time he ever had a conversation.

They were the stuff of after-dinner conversation when, mellowed by brandy and candlelight, people confessed to fascinations they wouldn't have broached an hour earlier.

But after-dinner conversation returned to easier channels.

She let her mind wander back an hour or two to this evening's after-dinner conversation with Trisu.

It is an interesting subject of after-dinner conversation are all criminals really madmen?

This is the guidebook as after-dinner conversation with an insider, rich and gossipy, witty and a bit knowing.

The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.

We dreamed of our dazzling after-dinner conversation where we would instruct the President on world policy.