Shooting the breeze means to talk about all sorts of things. Just general chit chat about the weather and unimportant things.
The implied idiom of "shoot the breeze" means to engage in casual or aimless conversation, typically with no specific purpose or goal in mind. It is often used to describe a relaxed and easy-going interaction between people.
It means having a casual conversation with another person.
Shoot the breeze Chew the fat
It is an Americanism from the 1940's meaning 'to gossip' or 'pass the time away with idle chat'
Shoot your mouth off, shoot the breeze, let's shoot pool, the star just shot by me, and "Don't shoot!" are just a few common phrases containing the words 'shoot' and 'shot'.
Don't take an action that will result in harm to yourself that you did not intend.
take a gun, aim, and fire - funny, very funny ...The term "shoot dice" just means to throw them down onto the table or other surface. It is an idiom.
"Shooting the breeze" or "shooting" or "throwing the bull" (bull being short for bull dung) means to kill time by engaging in idle chitchat. This term is usually applied between men. The idioms (and their tendency to be used with men) showed up in the early 20th century and come from the imagery of the Old West. Cowboys and other folk with nothing to do would find ways to kill time by, say, shooting into the air at nothing in particular (shooting the breeze) or playing around with bull droppings (throwing the bull).
No, this statement is not a metaphor. It is a figure of speech called an idiom, as it conveys a figurative meaning rather than a literal one.
I push her into traffic. Just kidding, We talk philosophy. She's a retired sociology professor.
If you think about this, you can figure it out. If fish are trapped in a barrel, how could they get away from a gun? It means something is ridiculously easy.
Idiom is correct.