breeze : Idioms & Phrases


breeze block

  • noun a light concrete building block made with cinder aggregate
    clinker block; cinder block.
    • cinder blocks are called breeze blocks in Britain
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breeze through

  • verb succeed at easily
    sweep through; ace; nail; sail through; pass with flying colors.
    • She sailed through her exams
    • You will pass with flying colors
    • She nailed her astrophysics course
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Fresh breeze

  • noun wind moving 19-24 knots; 5 on the Beaufort scale
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  • (Naut.), a breeze between a moderate and a strong breeze; one blowinq about twenty miles an hour.
Webster 1913

gentle breeze

  • noun wind moving 8-12 knots; 3 on the Beaufort scale
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Land breeze

  • a wind blowing from the land, generally at night.
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light breeze

  • noun wind moving 4-7 knots; 2 on the Beaufort scale
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moderate breeze

  • noun wind moving 13-18 knots; 4 on the Beaufort scale
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Sea breeze

  • noun a cooling breeze from the sea (during the daytime)
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  • a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.
Webster 1913

shoot the breeze

  • verb talk socially without exchanging too much information
    chit-chat; chew the fat; confab; chitchat; jaw; claver; visit; chaffer; chat; natter; gossip; chatter; confabulate.
    • the men were sitting in the cafe and shooting the breeze
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spanking breeze

Spanking breeze
Definitions
  1. (Naut.), a strong breeze.
Webster 1913

strong breeze

  • noun wind moving 25-31 knots; 6 on the Beaufort scale
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To breeze up

  • (Naut.), to blow with increasing freshness.
Webster 1913

Topgallant breeze

  • a breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.
Webster 1913