| 词汇 | shoot the bull/breeze |
| 释义 | shoot the bull/breezeshoot 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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