fire blanks

fire/shoot blanks

(humorous)

if a man is firing blanks, there is no sperm (= the cells which combine with the female's egg to start life) in his semen (= the liquid produced in the male sexual organs) (usually in continuous tenses) They had a series of fertility tests done and found out that basically Tony was firing blanks.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yared	-	Biblical Hebrew, Eastern African, Ethiopian
AdriÁN	ahd-RYAHN (Spanish), AWD-ree-ahn (Hungarian)	Spanish, Hungarian
Rinat (2)	-	Hebrew
Epiphanius	-	Ancient Greek (Latinized)
Gilmore	['gilmɔ:']
Wilson	['wilsn]