Changing plans and shooting the breeze

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baby

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wasn't feeling well that's exactly what

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this idiom means change your plans we

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need to delay or just push back our

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plans because something happened maybe

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you just are feeling tired or you're

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feeling sick so you need to change your

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plans you could say I need to take a

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rain check

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or let's take a rain check and do our

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event next week let's take a rain check

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it's easy to remember this expression if

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you can remember the base word rain

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let's imagine you're trying to have some

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kind of event outside maybe you're

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trying to get married outside like I was

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and it rains like it was on my wedding

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well you can't have the event outside

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you have to go inside

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so you need to change your plans because

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of the weather so this is kind of the

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origin of the expression but we can use

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it in any situation where you're

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changing plans the second American idiom

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is to shoot the breeze let me tell you a

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quick story so you can guess the meaning

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in a couple days I'm getting together

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with a childhood friend who I haven't

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seen for a while and when I told my

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husband that I was gonna get together

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with her he said what are you gonna do

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you haven't seen her for a long time and

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I