| 单词 | hangfire |
| 释义 | hangfire[ hang-fahyuhr ] / ˈhæŋˌfaɪər / nouna delay in the detonation of gunpowder or other ammunition, caused by some defect in the fuze. Origin of hangfireFirst recorded in 1890–95; hang + fire Words nearby hangfirehangdog, hanged, drawn, and quartered, hanged for a sheep as a lamb, might as well be, hanger, hanger-on, hangfire, hang glider, hang gliding, hang, hanged, hangi, hang in Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hangfire
Idioms and Phrases with hangfirehang fire Delay, as in The advertising campaign is hanging fire until they decide how much to spend on it. This expression originally referred to the 17th-century flintlock musket, where the priming powder ignited but often failed to explode the main charge, a result called hanging fire. [c. 1800] The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |
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