breeze : Idioms & Phrases

• 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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• 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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• 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

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

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

Webster 1913

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

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

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• 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

• 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

Definitions

1. (Naut.), a strong breeze.

Webster 1913

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

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

Webster 1913

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

Webster 1913