Phrases related to: guns

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Stick to Your Guns	To be firm and determined in your statement in front of opposition, to take stand for your right regardless of troubles	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
go great guns	To perform particularly well; to be particularly successful.	Rate it: (1.00 / 1 vote)
go great guns	To move or proceed very quickly.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stick to one's guns	To persist in faithfully attending to cannons while under fire.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
stick to one's guns	To maintain one’s position or viewpoint when faced with opposition.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
flutter in the dovecote	I further argued that the principal cause for the political deadlock that persisted for thirty years after the guns fell silent was Israeli intransigence rather than Arab intransigence. The appearance of the first wave of revisionist studies excited a great deal of interest and controversy in the media and more than a flutter in the academic dovecote. — Israel Confronts Its Past.	Rate it: (5.00 / 1 vote)
faire feu	To fire (rifles, guns).	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)
long shot	Something unlikely; something that has little chance of happening or working. The term arose from the accuracy of early ship guns, which were effective only at close range and unlikely to hit the mark at any great distance.	Rate it: (0.00 / 0 votes)