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Meaning to chat or gossip

After lunch time, we often chew the fat.

take a short break

to not know or understand something at all

I didn't have the foggiest idea what he was talking about.

(informal, C2) used to emphasize that you do not know something

"Is she going to stay?" - "I haven't have the faintest idea."

I don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about.

Neither of them had the faintest idea of how to be a parent.

As to what I'm going to do now, I haven't the faintest idea.

I don't think Steve had the faintest idea about what was happening around him.

(B1) to be similar to, and make someone think of, something or someone else

I never wear grey because it reminds me of my old school uniform.

You remind me of someone I used to know.

I liked her immediately because she reminds me of Sally.

He reminds me of my dad.

Something about her manner reminds me of an old school teacher I used to have.