shoot the breeze

/ʃˈuːt ðə bɹˈiːz/

[phrase]

to shoot the breeze

[PHRASE]

to keep talking with a person about no particular subject

synonyms : chaffer

to [shoot] the breeze definition and meaning

Examples

1. We've been shooting the breeze for well over an hour now.

2. He hated formal meetings with agendas hierarchy and all the rest of it, but he liked to sit around in his bungalow and shoot the breeze over coffee in an informal laid back kind of way.

3. We just get together and we shoot the breeze, and it's a bunch of very nice people.

4. You know, but this show is more about just kicking it with a couple of friends and just, you know, talking, shooting the breeze, and just playing beer pong, getting a little drunk, you know.

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