3 Metaphors for chattering

"The woo-woo call and the woo-woo answer were not well timed and toned, and the babel-chatter was a failure.

Chatter is the only term for it, though it is quite good of its style; the form being a series of letters written to a friend by the young wife of a soldier at the front.

If Fred would be honest with himself, he would acknowledge that the third-hand chatter of anybody's kitchen would often be a delightful relief to his solitude.

3 Metaphors for  chattering