Another fun thing the media started doing a few years ago was to conclude "the gun jammed", when in fact it only ran out of ammunition. This really helps keep stupid people thinking spree shooters never run out of ammo.It really aggravates me to see the media misuse and bastardize a common term in shooting. That term is "MISFIRE."
I've seen the press or TV report say...."his gun misfired and he shot the wrong person." or "The policeman's gun misfired and he shot himself in the leg."
TV and radio people are not the brightest lot and all they do is pass on the stupid remarks used by others instead of using the correct term of "negligent shooting."
A gun misfires when you pull the trigger and it doesn't go off. We all know that, but the media does not know it.groan!
Phrases Related to Guns, Shooting, and Hunting in the English Language
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CapnMac
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Not the case at all. You do not want a fabric belt flapping about a flying aircraft--aircraft use, especially enclosed mountings are why metal disintegrating links were invented. It's important to remember that the first aircraft MG mounts were exposed ones in the airstream, and that the MGs were expected to operate over a wide range og G forces and directions, and in a wide range of flight attitudes--like inverted, in loops, Immelmans, Slpit S and the like.
The whole nine yards refers to how much 24" wide sailcoth was required to sew a sailor's shroud so he could be buried at sea. The use predates the invention of the machine gun by more than a century. And almost two before combat aviation.
CapnMac
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Beat the bushes no longer means to have your mahouts go flush game.
Point Blank seldom means the scope of range where one does not have to aim off center of mass to make a hit.
Harry the Hounds devolved to "hare the hounds" and then passed into obscurity as so few round horses after a pack of dogs hunting game, foxes in particular.
Firing line is in use, if not to original meaning.
Point Blank seldom means the scope of range where one does not have to aim off center of mass to make a hit.
Harry the Hounds devolved to "hare the hounds" and then passed into obscurity as so few round horses after a pack of dogs hunting game, foxes in particular.
Firing line is in use, if not to original meaning.
Riomouse911
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Shoot! (Exclamation) 
Stay safe.
Stay safe.
Dean C
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He meant no trouble, he was just "shootin' off his mouth".
Bandit67
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Thinking of phrases that are related to guns, shooting, and hunting is like "shooting ducks in a barrel".
whughett
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I thought that was “Fish”.Thinking of phrases that are related to guns, shooting, and hunting is like "shooting ducks in a barrel".
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How about "Cocked and Locked".
TRX
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It's automatic. It's just not fully automatic. As opposed to "semi-automatic", which came about when too many magazine writers started using "automatic" to mean "machine gun."
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."
"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all."
.308 Norma
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Yeah, I too have always heard it as "shooting fish in a barrel," or as "shooting sitting ducks."I thought that was “Fish”.
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Bolts of fabric contain nine yards. It takes almost nine yards of fabric to make a Great Kilt. It was also something when the lady took the “whole nine yards”, too, because that was quite expensive back when kilts were worn.
Though they may have been made in a Shebang, if you reside there you probably weren’t high class enough to wear a kilt.
Though they may have been made in a Shebang, if you reside there you probably weren’t high class enough to wear a kilt.
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whughett
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How many know the origin or meaning of that. I do at least one version of it.Freeze the balls off a brass monkey.
Now that's an OLD one.
Demi-human
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It’s not vodka, orange juice and dark rum...
It does go well with pirates...
It does go well with pirates...
CapnMac
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A bolt of fabric varies, but it's 30 yards long for canvas, and 40 yards long for ordinary fabric. Loomed fabric can run as long as you have thread on the bobbins.
For a sideways reference to OP, as field workers adjusted to the more rigorous schedules of factory production, sometimes they would doff their shoes into the works of the looms so as to go out in to the sunshine. In French "sabot" (sah BOW) is "shoe," the act of pitching wooden shoes was known as sabotage.
Marketing folk are always keen to score a bullseye, even if that means enduring a broadside or a firing line.
If I remember rightly (and I might not) the original expression was fishing in a barrel. Which merged with an older expression which referred to trap shooting pigeons, which were contained in a barrel-like basket or creel. Shooting into a barrel of fish would be very messy and not at all easy.
For a sideways reference to OP, as field workers adjusted to the more rigorous schedules of factory production, sometimes they would doff their shoes into the works of the looms so as to go out in to the sunshine. In French "sabot" (sah BOW) is "shoe," the act of pitching wooden shoes was known as sabotage.
Marketing folk are always keen to score a bullseye, even if that means enduring a broadside or a firing line.
If I remember rightly (and I might not) the original expression was fishing in a barrel. Which merged with an older expression which referred to trap shooting pigeons, which were contained in a barrel-like basket or creel. Shooting into a barrel of fish would be very messy and not at all easy.
1976B.L.Johns.
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Give it your best shot.
Demi-human
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I need fewer pints when taking in my folklore!
Nine yards of bullets?! An used them all!
Yikes! Life in the trenches...
stillquietvoice
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Spitting dirt, can't hit the broad side of a barn. Cooked off, dead eye.
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