shoot the breeze
Example Sentences
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He figures they’ll cross paths at intermission and “shoot the breeze” about what they saw.
From Seattle Times
Catch him after practice and he’s happy to shoot the breeze with a smile on his face.
From Seattle Times
“It felt like they were just shooting the breeze,” recalled Robinson Chavez, whose aching black-and-white photos anchored the series.
From Los Angeles Times
Downes could shoot the breeze about Bruiser for hours, and he readily admits a deep fondness for the elk.
From Seattle Times
Du’s rapport with the audience, as he plays more than a dozen characters in 75 minutes, favors high-fives over confessional hand-wringing, in the manner of a neighborhood kid shooting the breeze.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
