shoot the breeze

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shoot the breeze 的定义

  1. 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.”

shoot the breeze 近义词

v. 动词 verb

chat, converse

更多shoot the breeze例句

  1. Just the hard-on before you shoot unarmed members of the public.
  2. France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.
  3. Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.
  4. Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from Phoenix.
  5. I mean, the reality of it was, I had to go out and get on a horse, and ride in, shoot the gun — how hard was that, right?
  6. Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.
  7. Bits of paper blew aimlessly about, wafted by a little, feverish breeze, which rose in spasms and died away.
  8. But there was a breeze blowing, a choppy, stiff wind that whipped the water into froth.
  9. I was right, so it seems, about getting ashore before the enemy could see to shoot out to sea.
  10. That was a considerable sensible commandment of yourn, always to shoot the foremost of the Mexicans when they attacked.