| 释义 |
shoot the breeze (or the bull)North American informal Have a casual conversation: we’ve been shooting the breeze for well over an hour now...- Firstly, these kids were attending Sandringham Church, not shooting the breeze in some Internet chat room or hanging round a bus-stop and smoking.
- Last I heard, Bellows was heading out to New York to help start a new magazine, while still shooting the bull about creating a newspaper in Los Angeles.
- Above the thunderous whir of the aircraft rotors, Nelson and his buddies yelled back and forth, shooting the bull as the copter lifted off.
See parent entry: shoot |