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Idiom

bat the breeze

Meaning

To chat; to shoot the breeze.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“We sat on the porch to bat the breeze for an hour.”

“After the long meeting finished, the coworkers stayed behind to bat the breeze about their weekend plans.”

“The old neighbors often gathered on the corner to bat the breeze, sharing local gossip while the sun slowly dipped below the horizon.”

Examples

simple

“We sat on the porch to bat the breeze for an hour.”

contextual

“After the long meeting finished, the coworkers stayed behind to bat the breeze about their weekend plans.”

complex

“The old neighbors often gathered on the corner to bat the breeze, sharing local gossip while the sun slowly dipped below the horizon.”

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