shooting gallery
noun
1
: a usually covered range equipped with targets for practice with firearms
2
slang : a place where one can obtain narcotics and shoot up
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web But this wasn't a shooting gallery interrupted by wild train sequences and epic climbs up mountains. 
Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022 That basically requires flooding the region with shooters and sensors, most of which are available today or nearly available today, that can essentially turn the Taiwan Strait into a shooting gallery. CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022 Living inside a shooting gallery seemed to capture the insecurity of life in America. Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 July 2022 This is a revenge thriller in which the dramatic points, other than the celebration of military fellowship, are those of a shooting gallery. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022 The design brings to life the musical’s instigating image of a fairground shooting gallery. Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022 This was back when comedy was a shooting gallery rather than a self-pleasuring circle of Chuck Schumer stenographers. Kyle Smith, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022 Twelve thousand years ago is nothing in cosmic time and the solar system remains a shooting gallery of comets, asteroids and other ordnance. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 3 Nov. 2021 In wartime, the Black Sea could become a shooting gallery. David Axe, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021 See More
Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022 That basically requires flooding the region with shooters and sensors, most of which are available today or nearly available today, that can essentially turn the Taiwan Strait into a shooting gallery. CBS News, 10 Aug. 2022 Living inside a shooting gallery seemed to capture the insecurity of life in America. Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 6 July 2022 This is a revenge thriller in which the dramatic points, other than the celebration of military fellowship, are those of a shooting gallery. Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2022 The design brings to life the musical’s instigating image of a fairground shooting gallery. Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022 This was back when comedy was a shooting gallery rather than a self-pleasuring circle of Chuck Schumer stenographers. Kyle Smith, National Review, 16 Feb. 2022 Twelve thousand years ago is nothing in cosmic time and the solar system remains a shooting gallery of comets, asteroids and other ordnance. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 3 Nov. 2021 In wartime, the Black Sea could become a shooting gallery. David Axe, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1836, in the meaning defined at sense 1
- take it upon oneself
- take it upon/on oneself
- take it/things day by day
- take it/things one day at a time
- take its toll
- take kindly to
- take leave of
- take leave of (someone)
- take leave of one's senses
- take leave of someone
- take leg bail
- take legal action
- take liberties
- take lightly
- take long
- take lying down
- take matters into one's own hands
- take mercy on
- take much notice of
- take no chances
- take no notice
- take no time at all
- take note
- take notice
- take off