under fire
See also: underfire
English
[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- Subjected to enemy attack with firearms.
- courage under fire
- coolness under fire
- 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Turians: Military Doctrine Codex entry:
- Enlisted personnel are thoroughly trained and stay calm under fire. Turian units don't break. Even if their entire line collapses, they fall back in order, setting ambushes as they go.
- (figurative) Criticized or held responsible for something.
- grace under fire
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- The clerk had, I'm afraid, a shrew of a wife—shrill, vehement, and fluent. […] He had learned, by long experience, the best tactique under fire: he became actually taciturn; or, if he spoke, his speech was laconic and enigmatical; sometimes throwing out a proverb, and sometimes a text; and sometimes when provoked past endurance, spouting mildly a little bit of meek and venomous irony.
- 2009, Michael O'Connor, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 2:
- Meanwhile, the government's own Human Services department is under fire from the Ombudsman for its failure to protect children in its care.
- 2020 June 3, Andrew Mourant, “A safer railway in a greener habitat”, in Rail, page 58:
- Over the past two years, particularly in 2018, Network Rail has come under fire about its approaches to trackside tree-felling across its 52,000-hectare estate. Conservationists accused it of wanton destruction.
Translations
[edit]subject to enemy attack with firearms
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criticized for something
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See also
[edit]- (figurative): under the gun, under the magnifying glass, under the microscope