• to give an account of sg
• narrative, narrator, storyteller, teller
• account, long short story, narration, narrative, recital, relation, short story, story, tale, telling, unfolding
• have a chat, to chat, to chin, to rabbit, to schmoose, to schmooze
• have a chat over a glass of wine
• to chew the fat, to chew the rag
• account short of the truth