Pleasantries

Skip the pleasantries and get down to business.

We exchanged pleasantries, and chatted cordially about news in the team, and he moved the conversation naturally on to the main topic.

Ziri and Rima exchanged small pleasantries.

He isn't a man to dwell on pleasantries.

Let's skip the pleasantries and dig in.

exchanging pleasantries

Signora Caterina thought it could. Weak, yet cunning—vain, yet conscious of having outlived her attractions—with one of those tempers which we conceive to be the true interpretation of the old fairy tale, where out of the mouth of the party proceeded snakes, toads, locusts, and other pleasantries.