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Meaning of shoot the bull | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To chinwag; to talk idly.

idiomatic

Examples

“1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I didn't get what this group therapy was all about, it seemed to me it was just a bunch of people shooting the bull.”

“Shooting the bull with Benny and Elvira while Nelson skitters around out there in the lake of rooftops, selling used cars like hotcakes.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

shoot the cat shoot the five shoot the lens shoot the messenger shoot the moon shoot the shit