squeeze off

Fire a gun, as in He squeezed off one shot after another but didn't bring down a single crow. The idiom alludes to squeezing the trigger. [Mid-1900s]

squeeze off

To fire some amount of ammunition by squeezing a trigger: The police officer squeezed off four shots. I squeezed the shots off in rapid succession.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Buana	BWAH-nah	Indonesian
Ina	EE-nə (English), IE-nə (English), EE-nah (Swedish, Dutch, Limburgish)	English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, Limburgish, Croatian
Daniela	dahn-YE-lah (German)	Italian, German, Czech, Slovak, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish, Bulgarian, Macedonian, English
Fae	FAY	English
Shpresa	-	Albanian
Rashnu	-	Persian Mythology