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Shoot the breeze

I said I don't know shoot the breeze just sit together you know we'll figure out something what do you think from this quick story that shoot the breeze means well we can imagin...

Course: Sounding more naturalSection: Four American idiomsSubtitles: en

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long time and

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I said I don't know shoot the breeze

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just sit together you know we'll figure

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out something what do you think from

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this quick story that shoot the breeze

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means well we can imagine the word

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breeze means like a small wind we can

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imagine a breeze coming out of your

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mouth when you're talking so shooting

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the breeze means just to chitchat

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together to talk about daily life

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nothing too deep are important just to

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chat so I said I'm gonna just shoot the

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breeze with her I'm not gonna take a gun

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and shoot the wind that would be a

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pretty crazy activity together but

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instead we just talked so there was wind

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coming out of our mouths breeze and we

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this means we didn't really talk about

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anything serious or a substantial just

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chitchat just chat it the third American

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idiom is to plead the fifth let me tell

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you a quick story so you can guess what

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it means let's imagine that your friend

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comes over to your house and he says oh

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man I just went on a date with Sarah

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yesterday it was so great and then you

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say did you kiss her and he might say I

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plead

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