shoot the breeze

[shoot the breeze] or [bat the breeze] or [fan the breeze] or [shoot the bull] {v. phr.}, {slang} To talk.

* /Jim shot the breeze with his neighbor while the children were playing./

* /Come into the kitchen and we'll bat the breeze over a cup of coffee./

* /The women were shooting the breeze about Jim's latest trouble with the police./

* /The fishermen were shooting the bull about the school of sail fish they had seen./

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms


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