barrel »
A metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.
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big gun »
A large-caliber artillery piece.
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big gun »
Someone who is powerful or influential most often in plural form.
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blow off »
To shoot something with a gun, causing it to come disconnected.
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bulletproof »
Capable of withstanding a direct shot by a bullet fired from a gun.
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catch-as-catch-can »
A. 1681, John Fryer, Richard Chiswell, Robert Roberts, Robert White, A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters, Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672 and Finished 1681.
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flutter in the dovecote »
I further argued that the principal cause for the political deadlock that persisted for thirty years after the guns fell silent was Israeli intransigence rather than Arab intransigence. The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the media and more than a flutter in the academic dovecote. — Israel Confronts Its Past.
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give it the gun »
Literal meaning.
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gun it »
To accelerate or speed up quickly or suddenly.
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gunboat diplomacy »
The pursuit of foreign policy objectives with the aid of conspicuous displays of military power.
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gunk up »
To soil or dirty; to mess up; to clog.
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gunshy »
Being afraid to use a gun.
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gunshy »
Fearing the consequences of repeating an act, especially after being reprimanded.
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hold up »
To rob at gunpoint.
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hold your fire »
Do not discharge your weapon. Used originally for weapons needing a spark or lighting of a fuse to ignite gunpowder, now sometimes used to mean any weapon launching a projectile.
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