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fire

(something) at someone or something and fire (something) away at someone or something to shoot at someone or something with a weapon. Someone fired a gun at my car! The cowboy fired at the rattlesnake. The hunters fired away at the ducks. On television, somebody is always firing away at somebody else.

See:

• a baptism by fire
• A burnt child dreads the fire
• a five-alarm fire
• a three-alarm fire
• add fuel to the fire
• ball of fire
• baptism by fire
• baptism of fire
• be no ball of fire
• between two fires
• breathe fire
• carry fire in one hand and water in the other
• catch (on) fire
• catch fire
• caught in the middle
• Chinese fire drill
• come under fire
• draw fire
• draw fire from
• drink from a fire hose
• dumpster fire
• escape fire
• fat hit the fire
• fat is in the fire
• fat is in the fire, the
• Fight fire with fire
• fight fires
• fire
• fire (one's) pistol in the air
• fire a line
• fire a shot across bows
• fire away
• fire back
• fire blanks
• fire bug
• fire drill
• fire extinguisher
• fire hose
• fire in belly
• fire in the belly
• fire into
• Fire is a good servant but a bad master
• fire off
• fire on
• fire on all cylinders
• fire over
• fire someone up
• fire something up
• fire under
• fire up
• fire with anger
• fire-breather
• fire-breathing
• fired up
• fuel the fire(s)
• get on like a house on fire
• go through fire and water
• Great balls of fire!
• hang fire
• have [a few lot etc.] irons in the fire
• have too many irons in the fire
• heap coals of fire on (one's) head
• hold feet to the fire
• hold fire
• hold one's fire
• hold someone's feet to the fire
• hot as fire
• If you play with fire, you get burned
• If you play with fire, you get burnt
• in the line of fire
• iron in the fire
• irons in the fire, too many
• jump out of the frying pan into the fire
• keep the home fires burning
• last burst of fire
• lift fire
• light a fire under
• light fire
• like a house on fire
• line of fire, in the
• miss fire
• Moving three times is as bad as a fire
• no smoke without fire
• no smoke without fire, there's
• on fire
• open fire
• ordeal by fire
• out of the frying pan into the fire
• play with fire
• pour fuel on the fire
• pour gas/gasoline on the fire
• pull (one's) chestnuts out of the fire
• pull (someone's) bacon out of the fire
• pull out of the fire
• put out a/the fire
• put out fires
• quick-fire
• set fire to
• set on fire
• set the heather on fire
• set the Thames on fire
• set the world on fire
• several irons in the fire
• soft fire makes sweet malt
• stamp a fire out
• take fire
• the fat is in the fire
• There's no smoke without fire
• trial by fire
• under fire
• where there's smoke, there's fire
• Where’s the fire?
• where's the fire
• Where's the fire?
• you should know a man seven years before you stir his fire