Idioms for breeze
- to converse aimlessly; chat.
- to talk nonsense or exaggerate the truth: He likes to shoot the breeze, so don't take everything he says seriously.
shoot/bat the breeze, Slang.
Origin of breeze
1
1555–65; earlier
brize, brise north or northeast wind; compare Dutch
bries, East Frisian
brîse, French
brize, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
brisa, Italian
brezza; orig. and path of transmission disputed
OTHER WORDS FROM breeze
breeze·less, adjective breeze·like, adjectiveWords nearby breeze
breeding,
breeding ground,
breeks,
breen,
breenge,
breeze,
breeze block,
breeze in,
breezeway,
breezy,
bregenz
British Dictionary definitions for shoot the breeze (1 of 3)
breeze
1
/ (briːz) /
noun
verb (intr)
to move quickly or casually
he breezed into the room
(of wind) to blow
the south wind breezed over the fields
Word Origin for breeze
C16: probably from Old Spanish
briza northeast wind
British Dictionary definitions for shoot the breeze (2 of 3)
Word Origin for breeze
Old English
briosa, of unknown origin
British Dictionary definitions for shoot the breeze (3 of 3)
breeze
3
/ (briːz) /
noun
ashes of coal, coke, or charcoal used to make breeze blocks
Word Origin for breeze
C18: from French
braise live coals; see
braise
Idioms and Phrases with shoot the breeze (1 of 2)
shoot the breeze
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.”
Idioms and Phrases with shoot the breeze (2 of 2)
breeze