stare down the barrel of a/(one's) gun
stare down the barrel of a/(one's) gun
To have a gun pointed at oneself. (The "barrel" of a gun is the tube-shaped part from which the projectile is fired.) The robber shoved me to the floor, and when I looked up, I was staring down the barrel of his gun.
See also: barrel, down, gun, of, stare
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- be down to (one)
- be down to somebody/something
- be down to something
- be down to (do something)
- ask down
- (as) crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
- crooked
- crooked as a barrel of fish hooks
- bog
- bog down