split the breeze

Definitions

1. 1

   To take up space, causing any breeze to move on either side.

   • Nary bee 'at split the breeze / Ever jabbed a sting in Old 'Bee' Fessler—jes' in fun, / Er in airnest—nary one!
   • 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 ?
2. 2

   To move very quickly

   To move very quickly; to speed.

   • 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.
3. 3

   To carry

   To carry; to pierce the air.

   • 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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