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Tell me about a group chat you're in that's either brilliant or impossible to keep up with.

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I am in a chat with my old university friends, and it is lovely. We do not message every day, but when we do, it brings back good memories. It is one of the few chats I actually enjoy keeping up with.

Key phrases to use

  • skim through — to read something quickly without taking in every detail“I just skimmed through the long email.”
  • get a word in edgeways — to manage to say something when others are talking a lot“She talks so much I can't get a word in edgeways.”
  • moved on — to have changed to a new subject or stage, leaving the old one behind“By the time I replied, they'd moved on.”

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