Meaning of bull session | Babel Free

Definitions

An informal discursive group discussion, often one where politics, economics or current events are discussed.

idiomatic

Examples

“For instance, if you were having a bull session in somebody’s room, and somebody wanted to come⟳ in, nobody’d let⟳ them in if they were some dopey, pimply guy.”

“"We had the usual bull sessions about solving the world's problems or what would be the result⟳ of something," recalls Breidbart.”

“There's an old joke that I used to hear⟳ occasionally on British television shows: "It's not theft—it's socialism!" I couldn't help⟳ but think⟳ of it repeatedly as I read⟳ this paper on self-organizing institutional arrangements among pirates, which bears some disturbing similarities to an hours-long anarcho-capitalist bull session.”

“NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine ordered reviews of SpaceX and Boeing. Apparently this was planned before the whiskey-and-weed bull session on The Joe Rogan Experience⟳.”

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