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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