shoot the breeze

He figures they’ll cross paths at intermission and “shoot the breeze” about what they saw.

Catch him after practice and he’s happy to shoot the breeze with a smile on his face.

“It felt like they were just shooting the breeze,” recalled Robinson Chavez, whose aching black-and-white photos anchored the series.

Downes could shoot the breeze about Bruiser for hours, and he readily admits a deep fondness for the elk.

Du’s rapport with the audience, as he plays more than a dozen characters in 75 minutes, favors high-fives over confessional hand-wringing, in the manner of a neighborhood kid shooting the breeze.