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shoot the breeze
Idioms and Phrases
Also, shoot or throw the bull . Talk idly, chat, as in They've been sitting on the porch for hours, just shooting the breeze , or The guys sit around the locker room, throwing the bull . The first of these slangy terms, alluding to talking into the wind, was first recorded in 1919. In the variant, first recorded in 1908, bull is a shortening of bullshit , and means “empty talk” or “lies.”Example Sentences
Traditionally, this is nothing more than a photo opportunity, but President Trump likes to shoot the breeze with the press pack.
He figures they’ll cross paths at intermission and “shoot the breeze” about what they saw.
Catch him after practice and he’s happy to shoot the breeze with a smile on his face.
“It felt like they were just shooting the breeze,” recalled Robinson Chavez, whose aching black-and-white photos anchored the series.
Downes could shoot the breeze about Bruiser for hours, and he readily admits a deep fondness for the elk.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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