shoot the breeze

Meaning

1. shoot the breeze / bull

   to have a conversation in an informal way

   We sat around in the bar, shooting the breeze.

In the movies · 1

• Do you remember where this shooting the breeze took place?All the President's Men1976

Learn it in full scenes

• All the President's Men1976
  • Police Arrest the Watergate Burglars
  • Woodward Traces the White House Call
  • Who Gets the Watergate Story

From the same entry

• be shot of
• have shot your bolt
• be like shooting fish in a barrel
• shoot from the hip
• shoot yourself in the foot
• shoot it out
• shoot the messenger
• shoot your mouth off
• shoot the rapids
• shoot down
• shoot for
• shoot off