firing line
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English
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[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Noun
[edit]firing line (plural firing lines)
- (military) The line from which soldiers fire their weapons at a target; especially the front line of troops in a battle.
- A row of shooters.
- (figurative) Line of fire, a situation in which someone or something is targeted.
- 2023 March 8, Howatd Johnston, “Was Marples the real railway wrecker?”, in RAIL, number 978, page 50:
- Directly in their firing line was Sir Brian Robertson, the retired Commander-in-Chief of the Middle East Land Forces in the Second World War, who had been appointed chairman of the British Transport Commission (BTC) in 1953.
- (idiomatic) The vanguard of an activity.
Coordinate terms
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[edit]front line from which soldiers fire
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line of shooters
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line of fire — see line of fire
vanguard — see vanguard