split the breeze

Definitions

1. To take up space, causing any breeze to move on either side.
   US, idiomatic
2. To move very quickly; to speed.
   US, idiomatic
3. To carry; to pierce the air.
   US, idiomatic

Examples

“Nary bee 'at split⟳ the breeze / Ever jabbed a sting⟳ in Old 'Bee' Fessler—jes' in fun, / Er in airnest—nary one!”

“That any full-grown, man-shouldered male human being could be so poor in dignity as to appear⟳ in public and the light⟳ of day so trigged up, passed all bounds of credulity. But there he was, his little old fool cap pushed back like⟳ a three-year-old boy, his blunderbuss trousers flapping in the wind about his ankles, holding an argument with as much assurance as if he stood equal with any man that ever split⟳ the breeze.”

“Perhaps his name⟳ appears in the article, or under the photograph; his chest expands three inches, he gains in stature, his chin splits the breeze; he and his gang have⟳ done something — right here it is in the paper, our paper, see⟳ ?”

“Anything that splits the breeze, from your finger to a tree or a building, will cause an invisible vortex street to spread⟳ behind it.”

“The driver steered the hulking bus up and over the hills and past the rippling grasses, splitting the breeze like⟳ a bow divides the water.”

“I falls backward into the open⟳ door, Magpie ducks flat on the ground and crawls on his belly around the corner, and Dirty splits the breeze toward town behind his bronc, which seems to have⟳ contracted the getaway fever, too.”

“"Hop in, then" the other said, brightening, "while I look⟳ along the track for a caddy of keen-spitting they was to fling⟳ off the train⟳ for me. Then we'll split⟳ the breeze."”

“Can't do it on the whale-boat. Must use⟳ the bidarka. I saw⟳ the way it splits the breeze.”

“They can run⟳ at a sixty-mile-an-hour speed⟳ and were really splitting the breeze as they crossed the little valley in front of Pa.”

“Well, Columbia's got lots of money, I don't mind⟳ taking it from them...I got $400 cash in advance and five percent royalties for the records...I just bought a new Plymouth and it really splits the breeze.”

“Enterprise was acclaimed with a blast of whistles that split⟳ the breeze.”

“Sometimes the scream⟳ of a cougar split⟳ the breeze.”

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