Learn the English Phrases "to breeze through" and "to shoot the breeze"

In this English lesson, I wanted to help

you learn the English phrase to breeze through.

When you breeze through something, it means

you do it quickly and easily.

At school, I had a whole stack of

student work that I needed to look at.

Well, that truck's pretty loud.

I'm not sure if you can hear it.

I had a whole stack of student work that I needed

to look at and I thought it was going to be

hard, but I was able to breeze through it.

It actually was really easy to look at all the

work and give them each a grade out of ten.

So when you breeze through something, it

means you do it quickly and easily

and it's not very difficult at all.

The other phrase I wanted to teach

you today is to shoot the breeze.

So when you shoot the breeze,

it means you talk with someone.

Sometimes after work, as I'm walking out, another

teacher will be walking out and we might

shoot the breeze for a few minutes.

We might just stand and talk about our day.

We might stand and talk about

a student who wasn't behaving. I don't know. Do we?

Do teachers do that?

Sometimes, but we sometimes just shoot the breeze.

We also sometimes say shoot the bull.

It means to just talk about everyday things.

So to review to breeze through something means to

do it easily or to do it without difficulty.

That would maybe be a better description.

To do it quickly and with very little difficulty.

And to shoot the breeze or to shoot

the bull means simply to talk to someone.

So even though it has the verb to shoot

in it, it doesn't mean that at all.

It means to just have a conversation.

But hey, let's look at a comment from a previous video.

This comment is from keen student.

I am the first to leave a comment.

You were actually, I've almost got my

teacher's degree, but I am still learning.

Thank you for the lessons.

They are very helpful and needed.

And my response, that's awesome that

you almost have your degree.

I hope the rest of your studies go well.

So thank you keen student.

I do hope things go well for you. It's cool.

When I hear about people who are becoming

teachers, I just think it is awesome.

By the way, it's really windy out here.

I'm not sure if you can see that with my

paper flapping around a little bit or if you can

see it in the trees above me, but it's definitely

a windier day than I was expecting.

But that's okay.

Got my jacket on, I'm dressed for the weather and

like I mentioned earlier this week, it feels like we

are shifting into fall 100% sure that's what is happening.

I'm not sure if you can see Walter behind me here.

He's feeling a lot better.

I don't know if you watch Jen's videos. Hi, Walter.

Hey, Pup.

Oh, he's very interested in something.

I'm not sure if you watch Jen's videos, but Walter had

a sore paw, and we ended up taking him to the

vet, and he was on antibiotics for two weeks.

He hurt like, the little nail on his paw,

and he's definitely doing a lot better now.

As you can see.

He must have gotten a scent of something.

He must smell a squirrel or maybe some other small

rodent or animal, and he's off hunting away, so.

But anyways, the bad part about that is

it's really expensive to go to the vet.

For us to go to the vet

for a 20 minute visit was $375.

That was a little shocking.

When Jen came out, I stayed in the van.

Jen went in, and it was like,

oh, that's a lot of money.

But, hey, when you have a dog and

you love your dog, you pay whatever you

have to pay to keep your dog healthy.

And by the way, Oscar, you probably can't see him.

He's just having a nap over there.

If you see a little orange

spot, brown spot, that's Oscar.

Anyways, thanks for watching.

I'm standing here in this grove of

trees, and it's getting super windy now.

I'll see you in a few

days with another short English lesson. Bye.