shoot the breeze

Questions about shoot the breeze

What does shoot the breeze mean?

shoot the breeze means "talk socially without exchanging too much information".

What is another word for shoot the breeze?

Close synonyms include chew the fat, chat, confabulate, confab, chitchat. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shoot the breeze a common word?

shoot the breeze is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.