| 词组 | hanging fire |
| 释义 | hang fire1. To wait to take action. I know you want to start on that project, but hang fire until I get these questions answered by the boss. 2. To await further action. How many projects do you have hanging fire right now? hanging fireDelayed; undecided. This term comes from the seventeenth-century flintlock musket. Frequently an attempt to fire it would end with a flash in the lockpan, a depression that held the priming powder, which would fail to explode the main charge. Thus the gun was left hanging fire, that is, slow to fire a charge. See also flash in the pan. |
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