Idiom
shoot the bull
Meaning
To chinwag; to talk idly.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“We sat on the porch to shoot the bull for an hour.”
“After the long meeting finished, the coworkers stayed behind to shoot the bull about their weekend plans.”
“The old men gathered at the local diner every morning to shoot the bull, discussing everything from local politics to the changing weather.”
Examples
simple
“We sat on the porch to shoot the bull for an hour.”
contextual
“After the long meeting finished, the coworkers stayed behind to shoot the bull about their weekend plans.”
complex
“The old men gathered at the local diner every morning to shoot the bull, discussing everything from local politics to the changing weather.”
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