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21 gun saluteA British / Colonial practice of firing 21 artillery pieces or rifles as a way of honouring someone / something.Rate it:

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a smoke screenEarly sea battles demonstrated the value of gun smoke and smoke from burning ships to hide one battleship from one belonging to the enemy. Later, smoke was generated prior to commencing battle so as to make it more difficult for gun crews to spot the targeted vessel. This tactic became known as a smoke screen.Rate it:

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adding machineA pocket calculator that has very few functions.Rate it:

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barrelA metallic tube, as of a gun, from which a projectile is discharged.Rate it:

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big gunA large-caliber artillery piece.Rate it:

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big gunSomeone who is powerful or influential most often in plural form.Rate it:

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blow offTo shoot something with a gun, causing it to come disconnected.Rate it:

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bolt bucketA machine, especially an automobile. Implies that the machine is clunky or unreliable.Rate it:

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bring upTo turn on power or start, as of a machine.Rate it:

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bulletproofCapable of withstanding a direct shot by a bullet fired from a gun.Rate it:

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bust a capTo fire a weapon; to shoot with a gun.Rate it:

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c'est comme le couteau de jeannotThat is like the Irishman’s gun (said of anything that has been mended so often as to have nothing of the original left).Rate it:

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call screeningthe process of evaluating the characteristics of a telephone call before deciding how or whether to answer it. Some methods may include: listening to the message being recorded on an answering machine or voice mail. checking a caller ID display to see who or where the call is from.Rate it:

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crank outTo produce in large volumes mechanically or as if by machine.Rate it:

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dial inconfigure, set up, particularly a complex machine with many configuration options.Rate it:

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eat one's gunTo commit suicide, especially by use of a firearm discharged into the victim's mouth.Rate it:

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fruit machineone arm banditRate it:

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ghost in the machinea term used to describe the concept of mind-body dualism: that the mind exists alongside and separate from the body; also an album by The PoliceRate it:

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give it the gunLiteral meaning.Rate it:

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gun downTo kill by means of a firearm, especially deliberately and in a brutal manner.Rate it:

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gun forTo strive for the downfall or diminution of another.Rate it:

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gun forTo pursue as a goal; to work hard to achieve.Rate it:

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gun itTo accelerate or speed up quickly or suddenly.Rate it:

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gunner's daughterThe gun to which sailors were tied to be flogged.Rate it:

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gunshyBeing afraid to use a gun.Rate it:

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hired gunA person who is employed as an armed guard, enforcer, or mercenary and who is prepared to use gunplay or similar violent methods in order to assert the interests of his or her employer.Rate it:

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hired gunA person who is employed to advance the interests of his or her employer, especially in a vigorous manner using such methods as political lobbying, legal advocacy, or persuasion.Rate it:

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hop upto make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.)Rate it:

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in controlWhen one is controlling a machine, or a situation, or an activity. Similar to in charge, but one person can be officially in charge, while another person is, in fact, in control.Rate it:

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in the worksIn a mechanism or machine.Rate it:

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is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see meIndicates the speaker has noticed an erection underneath the interlocutor's clothes.Rate it:

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jump the gunTo act or begin too soon or without due caution.Rate it:

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jump the gunTo trade securities based on information that is not yet public; to trade on inside information.Rate it:

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Jump the GunTo do something a bit earlier or before the time, hasty in doing somethingRate it:

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jump the gunTo begin a race too soon, before the starting gun goes off.Rate it:

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jump the gun!Take Premature Action:, Begin to run before the report of the starter's gun! Illegal actions:Rate it:

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kick the bucketOf a machine, to break down such that it cannot be repaired.Rate it:

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oil burnerA machine that uses oil as its fuel.Rate it:

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peashooterA toy gun, consisting of a tube through which peas or small objects are blown.Rate it:

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peashooterAny small or ineffective gun.Rate it:

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pistol whiphit someone with a hand gun/pistolRate it:

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poachers gunA small bore shotgun hidden in a walking cane.Rate it:

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poachers gunUsed other than as an idiom. poacher's gunRate it:

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point blankThe distance between a gun and a target such that it requires minimal effort in aiming it. In particular no allowance needs to be made for the effects of gravity, target movement or wind in aiming the projectile.Rate it:

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poop machineAn animal whose defecation inconveniences humans.Rate it:

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poop machineAn infant.Rate it:

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pop a cap in someone's assTo shoot someone with a gun.Rate it:

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pull the triggerTo fire a gun.Rate it:

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put a gun to someone's headTo compel someone; to create a situation in which someone has no alternative course of action.Rate it:

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put one through one's pacesTo test several or all functions or training of a person, animal, machine, etc.Rate it:

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