shoot the bull/breeze

American EnglishAmE informalTALK TO somebody to have an informal conversation about unimportant things 谈天，闲聊，闲扯

Cal and I were sitting on the porch, shooting the breeze.

卡尔和我坐在门廊里闲聊。

Examples from the Corpus

shoot the bull/breeze• Cal and I were sitting on the porch, shooting the breeze.• Here I found four or five members slouched around a deal table shooting the breeze.• Invited into a back room, I shot the breeze with a married couple who said they ran the place.• Unlike the other candidates, he is always ready to sit in the back of his bus shooting the breeze with reporters.

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单词	shoot the bull/breeze
释义	shoot the bull/breeze shoot the bull/breeze American EnglishAmE informalTALK TO somebody to have an informal conversation about unimportant things 谈天，闲聊，闲扯 Cal and I were sitting on the porch, shooting the breeze. 卡尔和我坐在门廊里闲聊。 Examples from the Corpus shoot the bull/breeze• Cal and I were sitting on the porch, shooting the breeze.• Here I found four or five members slouched around a deal table shooting the breeze.• Invited into a back room, I shot the breeze with a married couple who said they ran the place.• Unlike the other candidates, he is always ready to sit in the back of his bus shooting the breeze with reporters. → shoot the bull/breeze at shoot1(6)
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