fire away Idioma
fire away
draw one's fire away from
Idiom(s): draw (one's) fire (away from sb or sth)Theme: DIVERSION
to make oneself a target in order to protect someone or something. (Refers literally to gunfire or figuratively to any kind of diversionary attack.)
• The mother bird drew fire away from her chicks.
• The hen drew the hunter's fire away from her nest.
• The president drew fire away from Congress by proposing a compromise.
fire away
1. To activate talking or allurement questions. OK, blaze away—what do you appetite to apperceive about my date aftermost night?2. To activate to shoot a weapon. The bandit accursed abroad aboriginal and again ran from the cops.3. To bankrupt a accumulation of article by absolution it from a weapon. Don't blaze abroad all your bullets now—more adversary troops are advancing!Learn more: away, firefire abroad (at someone)
Fig. to ask abounding questions of someone; to criticize addition severely. When it came time for questions, the reporters began battlefront abroad at the mayor. Members of the adverse affair are consistently battlefront abroad at the president.Learn more: away, firefire away
Start to allocution or ask questions. For example, You've got added questions? Well, blaze away. This announcement originated in the 1600s as a aggressive command to acquittal accoutrements and was actuality transferred to added accomplishments by the backward 1700s. Also see fire off. Learn more: away, firefire away
v.1. To alpha to ask questions or talk. Often acclimated as a command: I apperceive you accept questions, so blaze away. As anon as the applicant accomplished his speech, the pundits accursed abroad with their commentaries.
2. To activate to shoot with a weapon: The troops landed on the bank and started battlefront away. I accursed abroad at the burglar as he ran from the house.
3. To use up article by cutting it from a weapon: The recruits accursed abroad all of the armament during practice. We accursed the aftermost bullets abroad at the range. Learn more: away, fire
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in. to alpha allurement questions; to alpha talking; to alpha accomplishing something. The cops accursed abroad at him for an hour. Learn more: away, firefire away
Go ahead; say what you charge say; ask what you will. This expression, apropos to a gun loaded to the muzzle, dates from the aboriginal canicule of accoutrements and was transferred to added affairs by the eighteenth century, as in “Mr. Burney accursed abroad in a autonomous [on the organ]” (Frederick Marryat, Poor Jack, 1775).Learn more: away, fire
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