Shoot the Breeze

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Related to Shoot the Breeze: same old same old, run errands

Drug slang A regional term for the use of nitrous oxide as an abuse agent
Vox populi To engage in conversation

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As the band prepared for the next date on their tour, we caught up with lead singer Shannen Byrne to shoot the breeze.

A bunch of us would get together regularly at the Abbotsford Bar in Edinburgh and just shoot the breeze.

'To find humour in the darkness is typical Iain'

The boys will be performing their new single, Shoot The Breeze, on The Book Show with Mariella Fostrup at the Hay-On-Wye Festival.

Misers look to make Hay, then Cardiff; PREVIEW: The Misers, The Promised Land, Cardiff

For example, as I walk through what was once my quiet hometown looking for a stationery shop, I stop and say hello to several people I know, people who, because of things like change that isn't given and post offices that don't sell envelopes, have the time to stand around (even in this hustling new city) and shoot the breeze.

Loose change comes in handy

He said: "It's nice to sit down and shoot the breeze.

SPY GUY; Star to blow prize on binocs

The gormless regulars shoot the breeze about everything from organic food to Pele's privates.

Bushell on the Box: Crock on Tommy!

The pub, a regular haunt for the Irish soccer team, has been bustling with customers happy to shoot the breeze with Clarke and his close pal.

Golf: Dervan's Irish Open DIARY: Last orders..

You just can't shoot the breeze with analysts anymore," says Jeff Smulyan, chief executive of radio and TV broadcaster Emmis Communications--even though corporations are now being forced to dole out more information than ever before.

Seers go from `buy! buy!' to `bye-bye'. (Inside Moves)

He was a friend who always had time to shoot the breeze with co-workers about the topic of the day.