OXFORD 9000
📚 prep_phrase • entry_id 22307

under fire

/ˈʌndɚ faɪɚ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
estar en la mira
Criticized or held responsible for something.
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…
grace under fire
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