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fire away
verb
- informal.intr, adverb; often imperative to begin to speak or to ask questions
Idioms and Phrases
Start to talk or ask questions. For example, You've got more questions? Well, fire away . This expression originated in the 1600s as a military command to discharge firearms and was being transferred to other actions by the late 1700s. Also see fire off .Example Sentences
鈥淚t鈥檚 a miracle that this time the wind shifted at the last second and blew the fire away from our hill,鈥 he said.
Should they now drop all restrictions and let the Ukrainians fire away at will with everything they鈥檝e got?
鈥淔ire away and swing, get the most distance I can on a few of those holes.鈥
They managed to keep the fire away from nearby homes, containing it to some empty plots of land.
"We kept the fire away from homes," Stathis Topalidis, deputy mayor of Menidi, told state broadcaster ERT on Wednesday.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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