shoot the bull AmE informal
shoot the breeze AmE informal , also: shoot the crap AmE informal

All of a sudden, though, he interrupted me while I was shooting the bull.

"If it's just to shoot the bull, tell him to wait until late this afternoon."

If you wanted to shoot the bull, you called Al.

Alex leaned on the counter, like a man ready to shoot the bull for hours.

So I shot the bull for a while.

He doesn't like to pull off shoes, drink beer and shoot the bull.

I can probably shoot the bull with him for as long as I want.

But never a date to shoot the bull.

They let the fez-headed man get out of sight while they shot the bull.

And they were still grinning, still shooting the bull back and forth.

Perhaps he intends to shoot the bull and take the Seven Sisters for himself."

"It was me that shot the bull, son.

"Maybe I'll just shoot the bull with Jimmy and just do it," he said.

Jesse Delgado, 21, who was heading for church, said he was relieved that the police shot the bull.

The funny thing is, though, I was sort of thinking of something else while I shot the bull.

I kept wishing I could go home and shoot the bull for a while with old Phoebe.

No Last Shot The Bulls never got a final shot.

Not to shoot the bull, anyway.

Why do they do what they do, sitting there shooting the bull?"

It was after one that night when I got home, because I shot the bull for around a half hour with Pete, the elevator boy.

Later, wrapped in my poncho liner, I realized we had spent far more time philosophizing and simply shooting the bull than discussing company specifics.

Zech shoots the bull out of rage.

"Just shooting the bull."

In Shooting The Bull, Smith claims that a critical shift in political information has occurred.

Me and Sarge picked him up one time on patrol, and I shot the bull with him before he gave me the slip.

He shot the breeze with some of the other guys there.

They were taking time off, like me, to shop and shoot the breeze.

Sometimes, I wish my daughter could stay up with me at night, and shoot the breeze.

Painting, he said, and after that it was just shooting the breeze.

My mind was on a million things, and I had no desire to shoot the breeze with her.

And two cops shooting the breeze across the street saw the whole thing.

She knew Connie had not come down here to shoot the breeze with her.

Invited into a back room, I shot the breeze with a married couple who said they ran the place.

"I wait on him when he's in and we shoot the breeze."

He sat around shooting the breeze with his gun crew.

I didn't think you called just to shoot the breeze.

A dozen or so people were having lunch and shooting the breeze.

We were away back just on shooting the breeze!

"During a break, we just started shooting the breeze," he recalled.

Charlie and me go back a long time, shoot the breeze, tell a few jokes.

"So I wander his way and start shooting the breeze.

I shot the breeze with whoever felt like talking.

We shoot the breeze a little bit and get geared up."

Charlie nodded, two guys sitting around a bar, shooting the breeze.

When everyone got together at someone's house to shoot the breeze about the family, my cousin James was assigned to me for the day.

"The four of them were just shooting the breeze, saying get your mind off it, relax.

"This was a place where you could shoot the breeze with the fellas," he said.

Weeknights, they shoot the breeze in the living room, where two of them sleep.

But without good definitions, we're kind of shooting the breeze."

There is Internet access, but most folks just head out to the front porch to shoot the breeze.