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Firing line
firing line
also firing-line (firing lines) 1. If you are in the firing line in a conflict, you are in a position where someone is aiming their gun at you. Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed... N-COUNT: usu the N in sing, usu prep N 2. If you say that someone is in the firing line, you mean that they are being criticized, blamed, or attacked for something. Foreign banks are in the firing line too... N-SING: the N, usu in/out of N
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noun Date: 1881 1. a line from which fire is delivered against a target 2. the forefront of an activity — used especially in the phrase on the ~ ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. воен. огневой рубеж; линия огня to be on the firing line —- находиться на линии огня; быть впереди (в первых рядах); постоянно подвергаться нападкам, обвинениям и т. п. 2. передовые позиции 3. предмет нападок ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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5.
~ n be in the firing line to be in a position or situation in which you can be attacked or blamed for something, often unfairly ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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